Labor Market Analysis and Public Policy: The Case of Morocco
Guillermo Hakim, Julia Lane, Javier Miranda
World Bank Economic Review,
No. 3,
1999
Abstract
This article uses detailed industry and household data to understand why Morocco's labor market performed poorly in 1985–95. The data indicate that marked structural changes and weak demand in the product market were responsible. This article makes two contributions to the literature. The first is specific: it underscores that the demand for labor is a derived demand and that the performance of the product market is an important determinant of the performance of the labor market. The second is more general: it demonstrates that this kind of microeconomic analysis, using data sets that are often available in developing countries, can inform policy design.
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East German women show strong commitment to employment independent of income level
Wolfram Kempe
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 1,
1998
Abstract
Es wird gezeigt, dass die hohe Erwerbsneigung der ostdeutschen Frauen, im Gegensatz zu den westdeutschen Frauen, auch nach der Wende wenig durch finanzielle Erwägungen erklärt werden kann. Dies geschieht in dieser Arbeit mit Hilfe eines mikroökonometrischen Arbeitsange-bots-modells. Indirekt deutet dies darauf hin, dass eine berufliche Tätigkeit für die ostdeutschen Frauen stark als ein Wert an sich aufgefasst werden muss.
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Phonebanking
Jan Bouckaert, Hans Degryse
European Economic Review,
No. 2,
1995
Abstract
In a two-stage game, we study under what conditions banks offer phonebanking (first stage). In the second stage, they are competitors in the market for deposits. Offering the phone option creates two opposing effects. The first is a demand effect as depositors strictly prefer to manage some of their financial transactions by phone. The second (strategic) effect is that competition is increased as transaction costs are lowered. Universal phonebanking prevails when the demand effect dominates the strategic effect. Specialization can occur in that one bank offers the phone option while the other does not.
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