It is windy in Denmark: Does market integration suffer?

The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Denmark

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language – English or French – with a summary in the other. The opinions expressed and arguments employed here are...

does diversification reduce risk in tehran stock market when it is volatile?

empirical researches have shown that in highly volatile market, conditional correlation between returns is stronger, so diversification cannot reduce risk. to test this claim in iran’s financial market, quintiles of stock return distribution have been estimated by kernel density and garch models. then, average conditional correlation, error variance and conditional capm has been calculated to t...

Market integration: how it works

Does Perceptual Learning Suffer from Retrograde Interference?

In motor learning, training a task B can disrupt improvements of performance of a previously learned task A, indicating that learning needs consolidation. An influential study suggested that this is the case also for visual perceptual learning. Using the same paradigm, we failed to reproduce these results. Further experiments with bisection stimuli also showed no retrograde disruption from task...

Years of Labour Market Policies in Denmark

Introduction Now and then, the economic political debate in Europe focuses on some countries, which have had more success with their labour market policy than other countries. For a few years, Denmark has been one of the countries in focus because we have been able to show dramatic reductions in the unemployment figures. The public opinion assisted by the government quickly links the positive d...