This paper deals with the determinants of labour out-migration from agriculture across 153 EU regions over the 1990-2008 period. The central aim is to shed light on the role played by CAP payments on this important adjustment process. Using static and dynamic panel data methods, we show that standard neo-classic drivers, like the relative income and the relative labour share, represented signif...

The control of drug activity currently favors supply-side policies: drug suppliers in the U.S. face a much higher arrest rate and longer sentences than drug demanders. We construct a simple model of drug activity with search and entry frictions in labor employment and drug transactions, where the drug price and the distribution of population in a community are determined according to an occupat...

By using panel data, this study examines the effect of unemployment on various types of individual health-related behavior, namely physical exercise, dietary habits, smoking, drinking, and sleep duration among Japanese men aged 20 –40 years. The results indicate that the effect of unemployment on health-related behavior varies. It is found that exercise habits and sleep duration are affected by...

The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a job. We used individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), a 5.3% sample of ...

Coming on top of long-term employment challenges, the COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted economies around world. Due to nature their labour markets, middle-income countries (MICs), including India, have experienced greater declines than advanced economies. Some sectors been hit harder others, while certain groups—including women, youth, migrants and those in informal economy—have felt brunt ...

This paper uses the SVAR approach to assess the degree of labor market flexibility – measured as the responsiveness of real and nominal wages to permanent and temporary shocks in eight EU member states (France, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic) with a view to assessing their suitability for Euro-area membership. It is found that for Hungary and the Czech ...

The paper deals with the determinants of labour out-migration from agriculture across 149 EU regions over the 1990-2008 period. The central aim is to shed light on the role played by CAP payments on this important adjustment process. Using static and dynamic panel data estimators, we show that standard neo-classic drivers, like the relative income and the relative labour share, represent signif...

The challenge in designing a broadband microwave amplifier is the fact that the input impedance at lower frequencies is practically an open circuit, and at higher frequencies predominantly capacitive and can be almost a short. This makes broadband matching difficult. For example, the TriQuint device we used for the project has an input impedance that is practically an open circuit at 0.1GHz, is...

An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates of the average gains from training participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings, and...

Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the perm...