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The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations [PDF]
This paper studies how the thick market effect influences local unemployment rate fluctuations. The paper presents a model to demonstrate that the average matching quality improves as the number of workers and firms increases.
Li Gan, Qinghua Zhang
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Defensive medicine refers to diagnostic or therapeutic actions taken primarily to reduce legal liability rather than to benefit the patient. In dermatopathology, defensive practices manifest in frequent immunohistochemical testing, overly cautious report phrasing, and reliance on multidisciplinary tumor boards.
Cornelia Sigrid Lissi Müller +2 more
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The Inversion of the Land Gradient in the Inner City of Haifa, Israel [PDF]
While suburbanization and decentralization are familiar concepts in urban economics, there is a possibility that land gradients will not simply flatten over time, but actually invert themselves. This would mean that the traditional CBD or downtown ceases
Pnina O. Plaut, Steven E. Plaut
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Consumer confidence and household investment
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Can consumer confidence account for the leading indicator property of household investment (HI) over the US business cycle? We find that it does. Consumer confidence leads HI and housing starts by two and one‐quarter, respectively. Household investment increases persistently after a positive confidence shock, and so do total hours worked ...
Hashmat Khan +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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Geology and Economic Potential of Manawaji and Environs, Gulani Area, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria
UMYU ScientificaUnderstanding the geology of an area is vital for assessing its economic potential. This study evaluates the lithology and economic significance of rocks around Manawaji, Upper Benue Trough, northeastern Nigeria. Field mapping and petrographic examination of representative samples identified Bima Formation sandstones, fossiliferous Pindiga limestones,
Abdulbari Dandashire Saleh +10 more
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Monetary and Fiscal Policies: Ordinary Recessions and Financial Crises
, 2011 This paper uses two different samples to study the effects of monetary and fiscal policies on the profiles of recessions and recoveries. Several results emerge from the econometric analysis presented. First, monetary policy during ordinary recessions and
Semov, Svetoslav I.
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The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the impact of reductions in poor law expenditure on rural life expectancy and mortality rates in England and Wales following the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Given the scale of cuts imposed, our estimates imply 8–10 per cent increases in mortality at ages 1–4 years and 2–4 per cent falls in rural expectation of life at birth.
David Green +3 more
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Reproducing Business Cycle Features: How Important Is Nonlinearity Versus Multivariate Information? [PDF]
In this paper, we consider the ability of time-series models to generate simulated data that display the same business cycle features found in U.S. real GDP.
James Morley, Jeremy Piger, Pao-Lin Tien
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