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productivity in Algeria is associated with higher unemployment than the sample average, though recent positive terms of trade … unemployment is higher in Algeria than in other countries. The results are robust to various panel econometric methods and …
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We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …
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elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument …
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The paper provides an empirical investigation of labor market pooling. The analysis concentrates on Italian industrial districts and shows that there is scattered evidence of a widespread wage premium. In particular, there is no evidence of district differentials for the returns to seniority...
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Unemployment has remained high in the Philippines, at almost twice the level of neighboring countries, despite … relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … unemployment declines were positively correlated with real GDP growth and, to a lesser extent, negatively with the real minimum …
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production decision made by profit-maximizing firms, with insurance provisions and labor market institutions affecting the costs …
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Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country...
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flexibility with state-provided unemployment insurance and can be applied only to new entrants in the market without affecting the …
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Unemployment pressures among nationals are emerging in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC). 2 … unemployment pressures while striking a balance between maintaining a liberal foreign labor policy and a reasonable level of …
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rates in the business sector in the 1990s, after controlling for many institutions, country-specific effects, and economic … by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …
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