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Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates

Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2017

In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …

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Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy : The Italian Experience

Pastore, Francesco - 2010

relationship between real wages, labour productivity and unemployment. Different time series econometric tools confirm that incomes … impact of incomes policy on the weak relationship between real wages and unemployment is detected. The analysis calls for a …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos - 2012

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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Regime and Treatment Effects in Duration Models : Decomposing Expectation and Transplant Effects on the Kidney Waitlist

Kastoryano, Stephen - 2022

This paper proposes a causal decomposition framework for settings in which an initial regime randomization influences the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest. Our empirical application considers the survival of...

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Migration and University Education : An Empirical (Macro) Link

AKKOYUNLU, SULE; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We...

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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep : An Archetypal Approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

Using Dutch time-diary data from 1975-2005 covering over 10,000 respondents for 7 consecutive days each, we show that individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity: The absolute values of deviations from...

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On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models

Johansson, Per - 2016

We show that the main nonparametric identification finding of Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b, Econometrica) for the effect of a timing-chosen treatment on an event duration of interest does not hold. The main problem is that the identification is based on the competing-risks identification...

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Do Non-Monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals

Sayli, Melisa; Moscelli, Giuseppe; Blanden, Jo; Bojke, Chris - 2022

Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage...

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Marczak, Martyna - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...

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On the Role of Sectoral and National Components in the Wage Bargaining Process

Dreger, Christian - 2010

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...

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