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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …

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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016

The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...

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A skill-specific dynamic labour supply and labour demand framework : a scenario analysis for the Western Balkan countries to 2030

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2021

This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...

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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...

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The Chinese are here : firm level analysis of import competition and performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Darko, Christian K.; Occhiali, Giovanni; Vanino, Enrico - 2018

Recent studies on oil market demonstrate endogeneity of oil price by modeling it as a function of consumption and precautionary demands and producers’ supply. However, studies analysing the effect of oil price uncertainty on investment, do not disentangle uncertainties raised by underlying...

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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...

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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...

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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 …

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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011

This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate country-specific systems of labour demand and Gini coefficient...

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Human capital potential of India's future workforce

Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015

Indian policymakers - like most of their counterparts across the developing and developed world - have been concerned with the employability of their working-age populations in particular, for obvious economic and sociopolitical reasons. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as...

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