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the minimum wage, trade unions, unemployment insurance, progressive income taxation and restrictions on labour contracts û …
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be tolerable at a time of growing consumption for all, but they become less acceptable when the unemployment rate has hit …
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in Kyrgyzstan, who cumulated a high risk of being unemployed, of remaining longer in unemployment, of being discouraged …
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Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...
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The US economy is still suffering from its most severe recession in seven decades. In the first of a series of US Election Analyses, Ethan Ilzetzki covers the key issue of taxes, spending and public debt, a major point of disagreement between the two candidates, President Obama and Governor Romney.
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We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …
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Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...
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This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship between aggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive a framework based on individuals' risks of unemployment and poverty, and how these vary over the economic … unemployment matters for poverty - with the macro picture - that there's no strong link. We then go on to identify which household …
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European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …
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unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …
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