Essays about: "Marginal effect of unemployment"
Found 5 essays containing the words Marginal effect of unemployment.
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1. Inflation, Unemployment, and Happiness: Misery Index Weights in Europe
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper uses micro- and macrolevel data to examine the effects of unemployment and inflation on subjective happiness in Europe. Using data on subjective happiness from the most recent survey waves of the European Social Survey (2004-2018), we find negative coefficients for both unemployment and inflation. READ MORE
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2. Work or Shirk : Finding the optimal enforced effort in activation and evaluating the job stimulus for social benefit recipients, by introducing effective leisure in a labor supply model
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)Abstract : Social benefits were forecasted to increase by 13 percent to 2022 before the pandemic hit the economy (Prop. 2018/19:1). In the latest forecast it has almost doubled: an increase of 24 percent to 2022 (Prop. 2020/21:1). READ MORE
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3. Okun’s law within the OECD : A cross-country comparison
University essay from Umeå universitet/NationalekonomiAbstract : In the 60’s, the first article identifying the relationship between output growth and unemployment were released, with the purpose of providing a tool for US authorities to estimate the effect of labour policy on output. This article, presented by Arthur Okun, came to lay the foundation for the commonly known empirical relationship, named Okun’s law. READ MORE
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4. Macroeconomic effects on securitized real estate markets - A comparative study of Sweden and Switzerland
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : This thesis investigates to what extent macroeconomic factors influence real estate stock prices before and after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007. This is carried out by examining the securitized real estate markets in Sweden and Switzerland by using descriptive statistics. READ MORE
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5. Are the labor market conditions causing the terms of trade to deteriorate? : A statistical evaluation of the Prebisch- Singer hypothesis.
University essay from Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The study examines to what extent weak labor unions and an abundance of labor have a negative effect on less developed countries terms of trade, as hypothesized by Hans Singer (1950) and Rául Prebisch (1950). Using a sample from panel data for 74 less developed countries during the period 1980 – 2010 in OLS-regressions with fixed effects, I find some evidence that weak labor unions and abundance of labor is negatively correlated with the terms of trade, which could be interpreted in favor of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis. READ MORE