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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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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 …
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social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …
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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 … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and …
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In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment … reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for Canadian unemployment. …
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The city size distribution of many countries is remarkably well approximated by a Pareto distribution. We study what constraints this regularity imposes on standard urban models. We find that under general conditions urban models must have (i) a balanced growth path and (ii) a Pareto...
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Reply to professor Vanek's comment on Bogetic's paper in the same issue of the Economic Analysis and Workers' Management.
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A model of capital service is constructed on stylized consumer behaviour and the total quantity of financial resources. The demand for money becomes a function of the wage rate under agreement as well as interests rates and overall economic activity.
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