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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006
to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of employment and unemployment. Our calculations show … alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania and moderately higher in Estonia and Russia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116750
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Aggregate Demand, Idle Time, and Unemployment
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman … flexible to completely rigid. With some price rigidity, aggregate demand influences unemployment through a simple mechanism … thus increases labor demand, which in turn reduces unemployment. We use the comparative-statistics predictions of the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798202
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Middle East Transitions: A Long, Hard Road
Yusuf, Shahid - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Countries in Transition, ACTs) has slowed already sluggish growth; worsened unemployment, particularly of youth; undermined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142081
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Female Workers as a Buffer in the Japanese Economy
Houseman, Susan N.; Abraham, Katharine G. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850015
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International Trade and Money Wage Growth in the 1980s by Susan Vroman and Wayne Vroman
Jacobson, Louis S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850032
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Recent Trends in clerical Employment: The Impact of Technological Change
Hunt, H. Allan; Hunt, Timothy L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850040
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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850072
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What Do We Know about Contracting Out in the United States? Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys
Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan; Polivka, Anne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490712
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Older and Out of Work: Jobs and Social Insurance for a Changing Economy
Eberts, Randall W. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Policy experts advance our understanding of the labor market experiences of older workers while pointing our that current workforce programs often leave this growing population underserved.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472683
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The Japanese Labor Market in a Comparative Perspective with the United States
Hashimoto, Masanori - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
institutions such as joint consultation and consensus-based decision making. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478808