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This study focuses on recurring unemployment, that is people with two or more spells of unemployment during the period … role of occasional jobs during a spell of unemployment and, in this context, the influence of the received unemployment … benefits on the duration of this spell. This paper is a continuation of previous analyses of unemployment in France, based on …
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The paper develops a simple model on the asymmetric role of credit markets in output fluctuations. When credit markets are underdeveloped and enterprise activity is financed by trade credit, shocks may induce a break-up of credit and production chains, leading to sudden and sharp contractions....
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, separating episodes of crises from those of growth. Performance is measured by the output response following recessions, rather … than average rates of growth that aggregate periods of recessions and periods of growth. Results highlight significant … performance following the so-called "transitional recession" from that of "normal recessions", the analysis allows separating the …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …
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This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...
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with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …
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This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …
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can facilitate access to the labor market for younger people and help lower global unemployment. But many questions remain … relationship between labor force participation of the old and unemployment of the young in France since the beginning of the 1970s … unemployment rate. Even controlling for the economic cycle, this positive association remains - albeit less robustly. These …
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