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Euro and technology effects on job turnover in Greek manufacturing

Papadogonas, Theodore; Voulgaris, Fotini - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 27-38

This paper investigates the effects of Greece's European Union (EU) accession and European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entry, as well as R&D intensity and industry concentration on job creation and job destruction in the Greek manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic...

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Economic returns and risks to investment in education : an application of the multifactor CAPM

Athanassiadis, Antonios - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 95-120

theory ; GMM …

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Los determinantes de la elección de AFP en Chile : nueva evidencia a partir de datos individuales

Berstein Jáuregui, Solange; Cabrita Felix, Carolina - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 1, pp. 53-72

This article is the first one to use individual data to analyze the demand for AFP in Chile. This study implements panel data techniques which allow us to estimate the switch probability of an AFP customer. Results confirm the fundamental role of sales agents, which was already suggested by...

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Country specific environmental Kuznets curves : a random coefficient approach applied to high-income countries

Figueroa B., Eugenio; Pastén C., Roberto - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 1, pp. 5-32

by economic theory, this paper uses the Random Coefficient Model proposed by Swamy (1970) and empirically estimates EKCs …

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Does aid induce brain drain? : a panel data analysis

Ontiveros, Darwin Ugarte; Veradi, Vincenzo - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on education and study which of skilled or unskilled...

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Pension reform in Chile : a difference in difference matching estimation

Encina, Jenny - In: Estudios de economía 40 (2013) 1, pp. 81-95

The present paper estimates the effect over participation outcomes of the new reform to the pension system made in Chile in 2008, using a difference in difference matching estimation. The main results found that the treated group shows a higher withdrawal from the labor market and that they...

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Dynamic approach of capital structure of European shipping companies

Arvanitis, Stavros H.; Tzigkounaki, Irakleia S.; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 3, pp. 33-63

economic theory, capital structure determines the stock market value of firms and therefore their viability, while one of the … theory in our case, while a positive relationship arises between tangible assets and tax bene fits (arising from sources …. -- capital structure ; trade-off theory ; pecking order theory ; dynamic panel data ; shipping companies …

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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen

Kröger, Antje Elisabeth - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17

In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...

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Wohnungspreise und Mieten steigen 2013 in vielen deutschen Großstädten weiter

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 45, pp. 3-13

Die Preise von Eigentumswohnungen und die Wohnungsmieten sind in den vergangenen Jahren in den meisten deutschen Großstädten deutlich gestiegen. Diese Entwicklung wird sich 2013 fortsetzen. Berlin, Hamburg, München und Frankfurt am Main liegen bei den Preis- und Mietsteigerungen weiterhin an...

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Ownership structure and efficiency of Tunisian banking sector

Anis, Ochi; Yosra, Saidi - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 3, pp. 239-254

In this paper, we’ll try to study the impact of ownership structure (state owned/private) of banks in Tunisia on its level of cost efficiency. While, we have proposed an assessment of the cost efficiency of Tunisian banks during the period 1999-2009 on a sample of 17 universal banks using a...

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