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Wage rigidity and employment adjustment at the firm level: Evidence from survey data

MARTINS, FERNANDO; Dias, Daniel; Marques, Carlos - EcoMod Network - 2013

This paper uses firm level survey data from Portugal to investigate how firms adjust their labour costs in the presence of wage rigidities. In particular, the paper contributes to the literature by analysing how firms, in the presence of wage rigidity, combine different channels of labour-cost...

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LABOUR MARKET SEGMENTATION, CLUSTERS, MOBILITY AND UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION WITH INDIVIDUAL MICRODATA

Usabiaga, Carlos; Toledo, Pablo Álvarez de; Núñez, … - EcoMod Network - 2013

This article proposes empirical tools to account for the role of heterogeneities in search and matching theories applied to labour economics, and shows an application to the Andalusian labour market which relies on individual microdata. Firstly, by considering that the labour market is segmented...

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Azerbaijan’s Current and Potential Comparative Advantage: An Exploratory Study

Almas, Lal; Hajiyev, Nazim Uzbey - EcoMod Network - 2013

The present article "Study of Current and Potential Comparative Advantage of Azerbaijan Economy", which has been prepared as a contribution to the National Employment Strategy, provides an analysis of the sectors and industries in which Azerbaijan is either currently competitive or there is...

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Examination of the transition of Turkish households into and out of poverty between 2007-2010

Acar, Ayşenur; Baslevent, Cem - EcoMod Network - 2013

Using a balanced panel data set drawn from TurkStat’s Income and Living Conditions Survey, we examine the transition of Turkish households into and out of poverty. During the four year period (2007-2010) under examination, the relative poverty rate had remained more or less the same in Turkey...

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Modeling time series of unemployment rates in the Caribbean basin

Maurin, Alain; Craigwell, Roland; Mathouraparsad, Sébastien - EcoMod Network - 2011

In the Caribbean Basin countries as in many other parts of the world, unemployment has become since the early 1980s one of the major dimensions of economic dysfunctions affecting societies. With levels that are above 15% and often reaching values of up to 20% or 30% during the decades 1980, 1990...

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The impact of the PDEF on the labour market outcomes of «high-skilled» workers in Senegal

Larouche, Alexandre; Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Trandafir, … - EcoMod Network - 2011

It is through a United-Nations initiative and as part of the Millennium Development Goals that Senegal launched in 2000 the "Development Program for Education and Formation" (PDEF). Among others, this educational reform affected the sector of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to...

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Trusting Only Whom You Know, Knowing Only Whom You Trust: The Joint Impact of Social Capital and Trust on Individuals' Economic Performance and Well-Being in CEE Countries

Growiec, Katarzyna; Growiec, Jakub - EcoMod Network - 2011

and well-being. Apart from gradual modernization and economic growth, also increases in labor market participation are …

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The impact of temporary employment subsidies on the exit rate from unemployment to regular employment: the case of Belgian older workers

Novella, Maritza López - EcoMod Network - 2011

The labour market participation rate of older Belgian workers is one of the lowest of the OECD. Early retirement, passive labour market measures and the wage bargaining system which makes older (white-collar) workers relatively more expensive are features that discourage employment of older...

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Time Varying NAIRU Estimates in Central Europe

Varga, Balázs - EcoMod Network - 2011

The unemployment rates of then-communist Central European countries were unnaturally low because of manipulated data and latent, "intra-firm" unemployment. As the transition of these states is now more than two decades ago, the question of how the NAIRU evolved since then arises. Because of the...

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Real Unit labor costs differentials in EMU: How big, how benign and how reversible?

Lebrun, Igor; Pérez, Esther - EcoMod Network - 2011

This paper investigates the factors underlying the dispersion in RULC growth rates across euro area countries. It … addresses three main questions. First, how big are RULC growth differentials in EMU by historical perspective? Second, what are … the reasons underlying such differentials and why does growth dispersion remain after the start of EMU? Third, how can …

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