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Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment?
Claar, Victor V - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
natural rate of unemployment relative to the NAIRU. The natural rate of unemployment in the USA since the Second World War is … the NAIRU derived from a Phillips curve - in forecasting inflationary changes in the USA in the second half of the …
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Post-reform Trends in Wage-Differentials: A Decomposition Analysis for India
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage …
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A Decade of Economics Reforms: Whither Employment?
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Employment creation and wage security have been primary goals of developing countries. The present paper analyses the wage-employment scenario in India in the post-reform period. The workforce structure is exhibiting upward mobility across wage classes, moving towards regular employment, and...
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THE CONCEPT OF COMPARISON INCOME: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Drakopoulos, Stavros A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Theories of social comparison have a long presence in the social sciences and have provided many useful insights. In economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework. The first systematic usages of this idea can be found in the works of...
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Changes in the Earnings Distribution in Slovenia during Rapid Growth, 1991-2005
Stanovnik, Tine; Verbic, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses the dynamics of income inequality of wage earners in Slovenia from 1991 to 2005, using two different datasets. Both are derived from the personal income tax files. The first is obtained by the Statistical Office of Slovenia, extracting all full-time employees from these files...
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Women Employment in The New Economy: Clouds and Some Sunshine
Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
entry barrier. Most of the gender differences in wages are due to discrimination and only a small part is attributable to …
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Profit Theory: the Islamic viewpoint
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1983
In view of a unique relationship of unity and divergence between Islam and capitalism, the paper takes a hurried look at the current state of profit theory in the mainstream economics. Here it identifies a few issues which include the concept of profit, its source and its relationship with the...
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Is Inequality Growing as American Workers Fall Behind?
Tatom, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A popular and highly politicized theme today is that US workers are falling behind as their real wages fall and income …, and at evidence on whether workers real wages have been falling, or perhaps only manufacturing wages. It also examines … seeing how real wages are changing over the recent past. The evidence here provides a perspective on why some analysts might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837386
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Causal relationship between wages and prices in R. Macedonia: VECM analysis
Josheski, Dushko; Bardarova, Snezana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this paper the issue of causality between wages and prices in R.Macedonia has been tested. OLS relationship between … prices and wages is positive; productivity is not significant in determination of prices or wages too. Engle-Granger test …
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A Shrinking Slice of the Pie: The Labour Income Share in Australia
Cowgill, Matt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political … conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens …. This paper shows that Australia has experienced the opposite of a ‘wages breakout’ since 2000. Over this period Australian …
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