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This book focuses on the critical role of employment and creation of decent work in facilitating peace in Iraq. It … economic growth leads to productive, remunerative and decent employment. This requires that the ongoing reconstruction … high level of employment and creation of decent jobs. The book also argues that careful consideration should be given to …
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dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …
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Switzerland. The involved variables are found to be cointegrated and we estimate lagged linear deterministic relationships using …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...
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Recent studies have indicated that the terms 'NAIRU' (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) and 'natural rate of unemployment' are not interchangeable. While NAIRU is an empirical macroeconomic relationship estimated via a Phillips curve, the natural rate is an equilibrium condition...
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The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …
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This paper explores the two common concepts of the natural rate of unemployment: (i) the stable, long-run equilibrium rate of unemployment; and (ii) the equilibrium unemployment rate at which there is no tendency for this rate to change, given the exogenous variables. The first concept (common...
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employment, using explanatory variables such as tax and social security benefit rates. Other variables represent the … estimates do not suggest that employment is significantly explained by the tax-benefit system. Nevertheless, we simulate the …
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This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...
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of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
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