Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 43 Issue 3

The relationship between self-employment and unemployment in the long-run: A panel cointegration approach allowing for breaks

George Saridakis, Miguel Angel Mendoza, Rebeca I. Muñoz Torres, Jane Glover

Although a lot of research has been done on the link between self-employment and unemployment, often focusing on the short-run of the relationship, the long-run association…

Productive contribution of local and foreign workers in Singapore manufacturing industries

Shandre Mugan Thangavelu

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of large inflow of foreign workers on the Singapore manufacturing productivity using a panel data at the disaggregated industry…

Beyond the marginalization thesis: Evaluating the participation of the formally employed in the shadow economy in the European Union

Colin C Williams, Ioana Alexandra Horodnic

Grounded in an emergent recognition that those people in formal employment conduct the vast majority of work in the shadow economy, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate for…

Labour supply behaviour of married women in Toronto

Wasanthi Thenuwara, Bryan Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between labour supply and the wages of married women of different ages in Toronto using data from the 2010 Labour Force…

Factors predicting the US birth rate

Hamid Baghestani, Michael Malcolm

The purpose of this paper is to take a forecasting approach to examine the relationship between the US birth rate, marriage rate, and economic conditions (measured by both…

Does the London Stock Exchange require an upstairs market? Evidence from block trades

Andros Gregoriou

The purpose of this paper is to test if the empirical relationship between the size of trades and market liquidity can be pooled across different block sizes on the London Stock…

Climate change and food security of the Malaysian east coast poor: a path modeling approach

Md. Mahmudul Alam, Basri Abdul Talib, Chamhuri Siwar, Abu N. M. Wahid

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct and indirect impacts of climatic changes as well as the effects of non-climatic factors on household food security in Malaysia…

Cournot-Bertrand competition: a revisit of strategic trade policy in the third-market model

Shoou-Rong Tsai, Pan-Long Tsai, Yungho Weng

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the optimal policy settings of the home government for any combination of strategic variables adopted by home and foreign firms under…

An explanation of spread’s ability to predict economic activity: A regime switching model

Anastasios Evgenidis, Costas Siriopoulos

For over two decades numerous studies have provided evidence on the predictive ability of the yield spread for real economic growth. While all this large literature has focussed…

The determinants of Greek bond yields: an empirical study before and during the crisis

Dionisis Chionis, Ioannis Pragidis, Panagiotis Schizas

The purpose of this paper is to uncover the determinants of the ten-year Greek bond yield in both pre- and post-crisis period that caused the unprecedented event, a country member…