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, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …
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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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Understanding the changes that occur in employment patterns as people grow older and the paths they take from employment to retirement may help to apprehend the factors that encourage or discourage employment retention. The aims of this paper are to analyse the process leading up to retirement...
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This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on unemployment in OECD countries over the past decades … institutions are found to be particularly robust, notably between unemployment benefits and public spending on active labour market …. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are estimated using cross …
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This paper proposes a new pre-test estimator of panel data models including time invariant variables based upon the Mundlak-Krishnakumar estimator and an "unrestricted” Hausman-Taylor estimator. The paper evaluates the biases of currently used restricted estimators, omitting the...
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This paper proposes a new pre-test estimator of panel data models including time invariant variables based upon the Mundlak-Krishnakumar estimator and an "unrestricted” Hausman-Taylor estimator. The paper evaluates the biases of currently used restricted estimators, omitting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008795296
Over the last two decades the Egyptian labor market has undergone major changes that the social claims of the January 2011 revolution brought to light. Among them, lack of job security and associated weak social protection have been particularly criticized. Therefore the aim of this article is...
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an economic crisis to isolate the impact of migration on local unemployment. The impact of the crisis on education … one of the main determinants of the unemployment increase and that remittances have a higher impact than the variation of … emigration flows. The low skilled bear the highest costs in terms of unemployment and wage decline. …
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