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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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Institutions can affect individual behavior both via their efficiency impact and via their risk reducing mechanisms … simultaneously extant institutions. This paper presents a simple model of institutional choice in a labor market when there is a risk …
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role to cross-country differences in social unemployment insurance institutions that Prescott argues can be safely ignored …
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labor market models have a hard time generating the degree of cyclical volatility in unemployment and vacancies that is …, job destruction and unemployment. We start from the reasonable assumption that the disutility of effort (in our case the … the average unemployment rate. It is important to point out that in our paper, incorporating an incentive compatible wage …
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In this paper I argue that most comparisons of the unemployment dynamics in the United States and Europe since the war … experiences in the two continents. Growth has a big impact on unemployment in econometric estimation. I use established estimates …
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in unemployment and vacancies but also wages, is the drop in consumption for the unemployed. In addition, explaining the …
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increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
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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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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...
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