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business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … positively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a destabilizing effect of public wages. To explain these relationships, we …
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This paper investigates the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price movements and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. We propose the implementation of nonlinear vector smooth transition regression (VSTR) models which offer a greater flexibility when modelling the possible...
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Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic …
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proposed. The expression for a modified likelihood function is obtained for estimation and inference in a fixed-T context …. Using a bias-corrected likelihood approach makes it possible to reduce the estimation bias to a term of order 1/Tᄇ. The …
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Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing … household income volatility using Mexican household level data over the 2000 through 2008 period. We correct for reverse … surrounding income volatility are also considered and evaluated …
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paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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Unites States of America (USA). We confirm the heterogeneity of Okun's coefficient across country, and its time … and USA in between. Policy wise, we claim that austerity policies may have unexpected adverse effects on job creation if …
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mortality, little evidence exist on the potential relationship between sustained income volatility, keeping average lifetime …-specific volatility of income on the other, decomposing volatility into a permanent and transitory component.Controlling for average …
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What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … and legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the …
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