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Highly Educated, New Foreign Workers' Acculturation and Coping Mechanisms in a Large Korean Company
Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The need for skilled foreign workers in South Korea (Korea hereafter) has grown substantially due Korea's changing workforce demographics, skill mismatch, transformation of business portfolios, and the pursuit of globalized business. As a result, large Korean companies have begun to recruit highly educated foreign workers for global talent ...
Dae Seok Chai
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Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
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Trade, Capital Accumulation and Structural Unemployment: An Empirical Study of the Singapore Economy [PDF]
This paper studies the factors responsible for the secular decline of Singapore’s unemployment rate over the period 1966-2000 in an environment of low and stable inflation rates. We introduce wage bargaining and unions into a specific-factors, two-sector
Hian Teck Hoon, Hiau Looi Kee
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
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The Labour Market in a New Neoclassical Synthesis Model with Nominal Wage Rigidities
Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2018 The aim of this article is to review a body of research that uses labour market components to build models of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) and to assess the implications of such models for monetary policy.
Przemysław Włodarczyk
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Climate Change Laws and European Stock Markets: An Event Analysis
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Under the context of the climate change we assess the impact of EU's legislative initiative on European stock markets. Specifically, we focus on its impact on energy and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) sectors for equity returns and volatility for a representative basket of EU countries (participating also in Eurozone) as well as ...
Theodoros Bratis +2 more
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Is the NAIRU More Useful in Forecasting Inflation than the Natural Rate of Unemployment? [PDF]
Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable.
Claar, Victor V
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on income inequality across 24 Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries from 2000 to 2020. Using IV‐Tobit and 2SLS models, we consistently find that greater trade openness significantly exacerbates inequality in the region. Critically, we document an inverted U‐shaped relationship between trade
Guivis Zeufack Nkemgha +2 more
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The ins and outs of unemployment in the long run: a new estimate for the natural rate? [PDF]
In this paper, we present a simple, reduced form model of comovements in real activity and unemployment flows and use it to uncover the trend changes in these flows, which determine the trend in the unemployment rate.
Murat Tasci
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Forecasting Natural Gas Prices in Real Time
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the forecastability of the real price of natural gas in the United States at the monthly frequency considering a universe of models that differ in complexity and economic content. We find that considerable reductions in mean‐squared prediction error relative to a no‐change benchmark can be ...
Christiane Baumeister +3 more
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