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There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...
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This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in each of the three cities, surrounding suburbs, and...
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-market difficulties. Labor-market institutions seem to explain the different developments in the two economies. Danish institutions …-market institutions, which emphasize job security by keeping workers connected to their current employers, may have drawbacks when the …
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Following the most recent recession, an attempt has been made to explain current levels of unemployment as resulting … from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The … other will lead to very different policy solutions, it is important to accurately assess the cause of unemployment. This …
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s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
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characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
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detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
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From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make … (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other international organizations all praised the U.S. unemployment … shows that in the current economic crisis, the U.S. unemployment rate ranks 4th to last among the major OECD countries. …
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This paper looks at the problem of state budget shortfalls during the recession and calculates the number of jobs that would be lost (nationally and by state) if states utilize pro-cyclical spending cuts in an attempt to balance their budgets. This is an update to an earlier paper from December...
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In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels …
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