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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?

Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …

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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010

This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data … previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …

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Citizens´ groups in Japan and the Internet

Ducke, Isa - 2003

The Internet, like other new technologies, will undoubtedly affect civil society and the workings of activists, citizens´ groups, and the political process as a whole. But how radical will this impact be, and precisely how will the Internet change the way citizens´ groups act?

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Fact or Fiction? Re-examination of Chinese Premodern Population Statistics

Deng, Kent G. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

half a century or so, basic quantities ofsome basic factors have remained disagreed. Chinese population is one of them … Chinese official censuses have beensystematically thrown away almost completely.As a result, the picture of Chinese population …’s population size despite the fact that population is commonlyregarded as one of the key economic factors in an economy. The …

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Do Innovative Workplace Practices Foster Mutual Gains?Evidence From Croatia

Goic, Srecko; Jones, Derek C. - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

Croatian manufacturing firm exhibits large variation in participation in innovative work practices(IWPs) notably online teams, offline teams, employee ownership, and incentive pay. Amongst IWPs,probit estimates reveal that membership in offline teams most often yields favorable outcomes...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-su - 2002

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local … labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of …

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2008

frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

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Parental unemployment and children's school performance

Öster, Anna - 2006

This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level … in Swedish unemployment during the beginning of the 1990s provides an ideal setting for testing the hypothesis that … parental unemployment affects children’s school performance. Our results indicate that having an unemployed father has a …

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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - 2007

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like … relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation. …

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