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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … with some policy prescriptions. At the moment Poland exhibits the highest unemployment rate in OECD and one of the lowest … increase of unemployment in 1998- 1999 and its later persistence. We find that the supply-side characteristics and sectoral …

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New Trade Theory Takes Over Monetary Theory

Gani, M - EconWPA - 2004

Prevailing trade theory is a neglected stepchild of economics. Micro rejects the sole reason for trade’s occurrence. It declares zero profit in equilibrium. Monetary theory and macroeconomics dismiss concerns of trade financing. They assert that money has nothing to do with traded output, but...

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Do workers really benefit from their social networks?

Fontaine, Francois - EconWPA - 2003

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

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ASYMMETRY, PERSISTENCE AND NON-LINEARITY OF SPANISH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

Garcia, Jose Maria Casado; Bielsa, Javier Trivez - EconWPA - 2004

Spanish unemployment, focusing on demonstrating its long memory and generating macro-economic models with autoregressive … vectors in which the unemployment variable is presumed to be non-stationary and co-integrated. Its consideration in this … suppose, the same as Skalin and Teräsvirta (2002), a behaviour for unemployment which is locally non-stationary in a globally …

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Labor Market Conditions, Political Events and Palestinian Suicide Bombings

Sayre, Edward A. - EconWPA - 2005

Objectives. This paper analyzes the relationship between Palestinian suicide bombings and economic and political conditions from 1993 to 2001. Labor market conditions could affect the number of terror attacks because when the economy worsens, the opportunity cost of engaging in suicide terrorism...

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Money in Market Clearing

Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

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Aging, Labor Markets and Pension Reform in Austria

Christian, Keuschnigg; Mirela, Keuschnigg - EconWPA - 2004

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …

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Unemployment and re-employment of displaced workers

Murtough, Greg; Waite, Matthew - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the incidence and adjustment experiences of workers who are displaced by economic change. Since the mid-1970s, the aggregate annual rate of retrenchment has fluctuated in a counter-cyclical pattern around a relatively stable long-term trend of about 5 per cent. The paper shows that the...

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Independent review of the Job Network

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

In 2001, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a nine-month independent review of the Job Network. The Commission would look at the framework for delivering labour market assistance (the purchaser- provider model) and identify areas where the model could be improved. The Commission...

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Productivity and the structure of employment

Barnes, Paula; Johnson, Rick; Kulys, Anthony; Hook, Scott - EconWPA - 2002

The paper examines the structure of employment defined by industry, skill, age, part-time and casual employment status and the distribution of earnings. Employment patterns, and changes in employment profiles, are examined for differences between high productivity growth industry sectors and low...

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