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  1. Not everyone Is engaged
    an innovative approach to measure engagement levels on the labor market
    Published: February 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Individuals' level of engagement on the labor market is hypothesized to be of critical importance for labor market outcomes. Based on a recent labor market survey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), this paper develops an innovative index to... more

    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
    DS 4
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    Individuals' level of engagement on the labor market is hypothesized to be of critical importance for labor market outcomes. Based on a recent labor market survey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), this paper develops an innovative index to measure individuals' labor market engagement across three dimensions: preferences, intensity, and barriers. The index can also to be used to cluster individuals with similar engagement levels to target labor market interventions more effectively and may be used to roughly measure the effectiveness of labor market interventions across time, as it can calculate the score for out-of-sample individuals. The index is computed individually and in aggregate for six labor market groups: employed, unemployed, and out-of-the-labor force, each separately for men and women. The methodology includes: (i) identifying labor subgroups and engagement dimensions, (ii) identifying relevant variables within each group and dimension, (iii) constructing an index for each group and dimension that captures the relative status of an individual against his/her reference group, and (iv) synthesizing the different engagement dimensions into a single indicator. Findings confirm the strong heterogeneity of labor market engagement in the KSA and the usefulness of differentiating interventions for job searchers depending on which cluster they belong to.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/196636
    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12138
    Subjects: intervention evaluation; index construction; labor market surveys; labor market programs; principal component method; profiling
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 47 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Immobilienindizes im Portfolio-Management
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss., Frankfurt am Main

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  4. Measuring the quality of eligible collateral
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  ROME, Düsseldorf

    Recently, the U. S. subprime crisis has shown that a weak collateralization of credits may have massive economic implications, entailing severe perturbations of the international financial system. We focus on central bank lending and try to pin down... more

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    DS 426 (2008,3)
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    Recently, the U. S. subprime crisis has shown that a weak collateralization of credits may have massive economic implications, entailing severe perturbations of the international financial system. We focus on central bank lending and try to pin down the quantitative impact of the collateralization of central banks’ credits. A questionnaire on national monetary frameworks was used to collect data from central banks. Drawing on these data we derive an index of the quality of eligible assets measuring the minimum requirements for the issue of money by the respective central bank. We provide data for 62 countries and we show that this index has the potential to affect monetary stability as measured by national inflation rates. The existence of a correlation between inflation and the quality of eligible collateral would strongly support fundamental claims of property economics, an economic theory based on a clear cut distinction between property and possession. Property economics emphasizes the role of collateralized lending in explaining the process of money creation and, more generally, the emergence of any economic activity.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/88225
    Series: ROME discussion paper series ; 08-03
    Subjects: Monetary economics; monetary theory; inflation; collateral; central banks; property; property economics; central bank independence; index construction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (27 S.), graph. Darst.