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investigation, it is shown that electronic skills induce more cybercrime under weak institutions where the rules of law do not … institutions suggests that institutional factors are crucial to allocating human capital between productive and criminal activities …
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youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … self-select into areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify …
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In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in … conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases …
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business background (CEO governors), focusing on the growth rate of real personal income per capita, unemployment rate, and … annual income growth rate and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Also …
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We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job. In...
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The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using data on 21 European countries covering 2007-2010 to cast...
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This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers. Assuming that differently aged workers are only imperfectly substitutable, economic theory predicts that individuals in larger age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis...
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cohorts being associated with lower unemployment rates. A possible explanation is that firms react to an anticipated increase …
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Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make a complementary statement in explaining...
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We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton’s (2000) ‘identity economics’ approach, we show in a simple game-theoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149101