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, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …
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This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on unemployment in OECD countries over the past decades … institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment benefits and public spending on active labour market …. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross …
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This paper proposes a new pre-test estimator of panel data models including time invariant variables based upon the Mundlak-Krishnakumar estimator and an "unrestricted” Hausman-Taylor estimator. The paper evaluates the biases of currently used restricted estimators, omitting the...
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This paper proposes a new pre-test estimator of panel data models including time invariant variables based upon the Mundlak-Krishnakumar estimator and an "unrestricted” Hausman-Taylor estimator. The paper evaluates the biases of currently used restricted estimators, omitting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008795296
land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the …) paradoxically, better institutions may exacerbate the deleterious impact of depreciations in developing countries. These hypotheses …
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analyses of Williamson and Granovetter, North's definition of institutions as "rules of the game" allows him to conceive of … institutions as the institutional foundations of the market and therefore as explanatory principles of historical dynamics. …
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Partant des conditions dans lesquelles s'élabore la " mesure " en matière responsabilité sociale, d'une part, et de l'insertion de la RSE dans la pensée stratégique, d'autre part, l'article montre que l'évaluation relève d'une logique de communication. Communication ne signifiant pas...
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rules and institutions they face. This allows to proxy the bailout expectations in both countries and their role in …
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This article analyses through a rent seeking model, the relationship between institutions' quality and natural … resources. Depending on the institutions quality, each country has a specific structural capacity to stand natural resources … resources begin to have a negative impact on institutions. As the stock of natural resources increases, this improves the …
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This paper examines the exporting behaviour of Russian manufacturers by considering the effects of firm characteristics and external conditions. Two measures of export behaviour are considered: the decision to export and the share of exports to developed markets. I find that specific exporting...
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