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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
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given to the unemployment rate. While several of the most recent models of unemployment show that the aggregate unemployment … rate in Australia does indeed behave differently during periods of low and high unemployment, none can explain what drives … the unemployment rate to increase at such a rapid rate and what contributes to its much slower decrease. Another central …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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This article estimates the cost of a public investment-led job creation programme for the United Kingdom. A programme creating an additional one million jobs at the current average wage would involve a net cost to the Treasury dramatically lower than the gross cost; £17 billion worth of...
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …
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Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unemployment, this is …
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This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores how the prevalence of HIV/AIDS relates to unemployment that leads to poverty …. Unemployment and poverty can be caused by factors such as level of education, technological changes, and fewer large industries … unemployment in the community which might lead to a decrease in the spread HIV/AIDS, since the two factors are related. The study …
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unemployment, which was already high andwidespread at that stage. The new policy environment introduced a mix of legislation …, socioeconomic and labour market disparities. Economic growth was to bolsteremployment generation. Rising unemployment is, in light …
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This paper proposes a model of the US unemployment rate which accounts for both its asymmetry and its long memory. Our … standard limit distribution. The empirical results suggest that the US unemployment rate can be specified in terms of a … with path dependency rather than a NAIRU model with an underlying unemployment equilibrium rate, hence giving support to …
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