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Old Age Pensions Public Expenditures and Fertility in European Countries

ENACHE, Cosmin - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 5 (2012) 17, pp. 119-126

The economic theory of fertility acknowledges the importance of old age pensions for individual fertility decisions …. However, theoretical predictions regarding the sign of this relation differ from altruistic fertility models (positive) to non …-altruistic fertility models (negative). First, a cointegration analysis is employed in order to check if there is a long-term equilibrium …

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Crimonometric Analysis: Testing the Deterrence Hypothesis in Sabah

Lau, Evan; Hamzah, Siti Nur Zahara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper empirically estimates disaggregated crime categories for Sabah from 1968 to 2006. The criminometric analysis incorporated in a within sample analysis of cointegration and error correction framework and the beyond sample analysis using the decompositions of variance. Our findings...

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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...

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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience

L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2003

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....

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Does an expanding low-pay sector decrease structural unemployment? Evidence from Germany

Garz, Marcel; Tarassow, Artur - 2011

Low-pay work has been increasing in prevalence in many industrial countries. Following standard wage/price-setting theory, this increase should reduce structural unemployment, because labour market flexibility increases and labour costs decrease. However, a Keynesian perspective challenges this...

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Forecasting Employment for Germany

Hinz, Darius; Logeay, Camille - 2006

This paper deals with the estimation of employment equations for Germany, which are to be used for forecasting and simulation purposes. The authors estimate both single and system error correction equations for German working hours using quarterly raw data covering the period 1980:1-2004:2....

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The NAIRU and the Extent of the Low-Pay Sector

Garz, Marcel - 2010

The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with respect to low-skilled workers. By now, the expansion of the German low-wage sector over the last 15 years is empirically confirmed, which indicates a successful implementation of...

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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between...

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Have inflation targeting and EU labour immigration changed the system of wage formation in Norway?

Gjelsvik, Marit Linnea; Sparrman, Victoria; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2015

Collective agreements have played a central role in the system of wage formation in Norway for more than fifty years. Although the degree of coordination achieved has been variable, pattern wage bargaining has been a mainstay of the system. We investigate the degree of invariance in wage...

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Labor Market Institutions and Wage Inequality in the OECD countries

Sparrman, Victoria; Rossvoll, Ellen Marie - 2015

In this paper we attempt to investigate the effect on income inequality of some recent trends in the labour market, changes in regulations of temporary positions and the surge in immigration in many EU-countries. The empirical results show that less strict regulations of temporary positions and...

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