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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500194
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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500218
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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321445
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Labor-force participation rates and the informal value of unemployment rates: Evidence from disaggregated US data
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - 2010
The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321459
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273971
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321617
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Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-job Search, and Persistent Unemployment
Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2003
employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321725
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The US inflation-unemployment tradeoff: Methodological issues and further evidence
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation-unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280760
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The Freedom Budget at 45: Functional finance and full employment
Forstater, Mathew - 2011
were supported by a host of scholars, civic leaders, and institutions, including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286508
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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263229