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Of the three major age groups, youth (aged 15-24), experienced the largest fall in labour force participation and accounted for the lion’s share of the aggregate decline. Consequently, an understanding of the factors behind this development is essential to an overall understanding of the fall...
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A major development in the Canadian labour market in the 1990s has been the decline in labour force participation. This issue of Canadian Business Economics consists of a symposium of articles that explore this issue. The idea for this symposium came out of a December 1997 workshop on labour...
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Labour force participation rates vary greatly by age, with persons 55 and over having much lower participation rates than younger persons. Consequently, changes in the demographic composition of the population can exert a long-run effect on aggregate participation rates. In the third article of...
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. As the U.S. economy enjoyed low unemployment in both 1989 and 1997, the rise in enrolment rates was related to structural …
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The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In principle, this development could reflect either the poor growth performance of the economy this decade or the completion of the integration of women into the labour force. In the...
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are an index of job availability (the Help-Wanted Index), the real wage, the real minimum wage, an index of unemployment …, policy changes in unemployment insurance and the minimum wage, and structural transformations. The explanatory power of the … the value of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (nairu), in a non-inflationary cyclical recovery, the …
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income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …. The third section examines divergent trends in the two labour markets, including the widening of the unemployment rate gap …
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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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