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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Global money, capital restructuring, and the changing patterns of labour
Bellofiore, Riccardo (ed.) - 1999
explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour …
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Cross-Country Analysis of Labor Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Breunig, Robert; Cheng, Wei; Montenovo, Laura; Lee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
remained employed (but absent from work) versus unemployed or left the labor force. The authors find large employment decreases …
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Economic growth : new directions in theory and policy
Arestis, Philip (contributor);  … - 2007
business cycle and growth /Pedro Leão --A Keynesian model of unemployment and growth : theory /John Cornwall --A Keynesian … model of unemployment and growth : an empirical test /Wendy Cornwall --The relevance of the Cambridge …
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Segmented labor markets and labor mobility
Reich, Michael (contributor) - 2008
), 'A Theory of Dual Labor Markets with Application to Industrial Policy, Discrimination, and Keynesian Unemployment …
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Handbook of survey-based business cycle analysis
Goldrian, Georg (contributor) - 2007
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Financial stability in practice : towards an uncertain future
Goodhart, Charles Albert Eric; Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. - 2012
The maintenance of financial stability is a key objective of monetary policy, but the record of regulators in achieving this has been lamentable in recent years. This failure has been matched by an equivalent inability to establish an appropriate theoretical basis for financial regulation. In...
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Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run : Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018
McLaughlin, Eoin; Ducoing, Cristián; Oxley, Les - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce a new database of historical Genuine Savings (GS), an indicator of sustainable development promoted by the World Bank and widely used in contemporary economic research. GS derives from the theoretical work on wealth accounting, and addresses shortcomings in conventional metrics of...
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Full employment abandoned : shifting sands and policy failures
Mitchell, William - 2008
unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift from involuntary to 'natural rate' conceptions of unemployment since … unemployment and the Phillips curve ; The Phillips curve and shifting views on unemployment ; The troublesome NAIRU: the hoax that … undermined full employment -- Full employment abandoned: shifting sands and policy failures. The shift to full employability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851543
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Growth and economic development : essays in honour of A.P. Thirlwall
Thirlwall, Anthony P.; McCombie, John S. L.; Arestis, Philip - 2006
This valuable and engaging new book bears eloquent testimony to A.P. Thirlwall's substantial contribution to economics over the last 40 years. The volume does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of such a prolific figure, but rather demonstrates the considerable influence that his work...
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