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The cyclical behavior of hours worked, wages, and consumption does not conform with the prediction of the representative agent with standard preferences. The residual in the intra-temporal first-order condition for commodity consumption and leisure is often viewed as a failure of labor-market...
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We investigate the mapping from individual to aggregate labor supply using a general equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model with an incomplete market. The nature of heterogeneity among workers is calibrated using wage data from the PSID. The gross worker flows between employment and nonemployment...
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associated with inequality adversely affected the emergence of institutions that promote human capital accumulation. The research …
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from institutions, and to some extent, geography, on long-run prosperity and TFP, may be thus explained. …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public …
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exercises indicate that recent findings of the conduciveness of good institutions, and, to some extent trade, on levels of TFP …
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The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …
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unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …
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