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: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …
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61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … benefits than for those ineligible for UI; (2) the long-term unemployed are disproportionately secondary workers for whom the … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the …
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International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …
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The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …
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.S. The pandemic induced the greatest loss of jobs in the shortest period of time in U.S. history. A slow economic recovery …
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In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers …
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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the cross …
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evidence pertaining to the effect of unemployment and other labor market variables on crime and compares the "strength" of the …
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from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high …
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This paper finds that US employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in … most other advanced countries or in the US in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, US firms reduced employment … proportionately more than output in the Great Recession, with establishments that survived the downturn contracting jobs massively …
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