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to implement. The empirical relevance is illustrated in an application to the effect of unemployment on happiness …
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The measurement of trade costs and their effects on outcome is at the heart of a large quantitative literature in international economics. The majority of the recent significant contributions on the matter assumes that trade consists of a product of exporter-time-specific factors,...
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's unemployment rate had there been no CEPA, we find that the CEPA effects gradually increases over time and eventually reached a … constant level of reducing Hong Kong's unemployment rate by 9% a year. …
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Our paper presents new estimates of matching functions on partial labor markets. We used extensive data, ranging from 1982 to 2003, which results in new insights, extending the knowledge obtained by former empirical studies. We also used the extended time series data to validate model...
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Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994–2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay for male workers. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically...
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It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …
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almost exclusively through a drop in vacancies rather than an increase in unemployment. This feature matches the U …-threshold (BT) unemployment rate. Once unemployment falls below this rate, policymakers must be alert to sharp inflationary …
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