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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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of the French case. The result is a model that can very accurately stimulate the movement of unemployment in the 1920s … raised unemployment each year by more than primary policies introduced to combat unemployment - public works and repatriation …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047805
Unemployment in the 1930s was low in France by international standards, nevertheless there was a virulent drive to … expel immigrant workers as a means of limiting domestic unemployment. This involved not only the repatriation of the foreign …
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of wages to local unemployment. Examining this spatial relationship, we find that the elasticity of wages to local … unemployment rates in South Africa is -0.1, similar to that found in other countries, including the US and the UK. This is striking … because South Africa has a national unemployment rate of over 30%. We find that the wage curve elasticity persists over a much …
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In this paper we introduce a small Keynesian model of economic growth which is centered around two advanced types of Phillips curves, one for money wages and one for prices, both being augmented by perfect myopic foresight and supplemented by a measure of the medium-term inflationary climate...
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Why might there be a long-run trade-off between growth and unemployment? In general equilibrium, the returns on the … interest. If the wage grows in line with productivity, there is a positive relation between growth and unemployment. If the … incentive to hire. There emerges a trade-off between growth and unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605230
Why might there be a long-run trade-off between growth and unemployment? In general equilibrium, the returns on the … interest. If the wage grows in line with productivity, there is a positive relation between growth and unemployment. If the … incentive to hire. There emerges a trade-off between growth and unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047919
Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household.  However, their preferences over consumption and leisure are rarely modelled.  This paper considers heterogeneity in siblings' preferences over leisure and consumption and builds a theoretical and empirical model for...
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Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …
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