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Unemployment, Growth and Speed of Transition in China
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013
We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in … China, furthermore, appears to be close to the level associated with optimal speed of transition …
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2014
2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045347
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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021701
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Urbanity
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014
I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060976
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Labor Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Labor Contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2014
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2011
large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … unemployment has a negative effect on later labor market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the literature … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117361
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment- An International Comparison
Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120904
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Changing Identity : Retiring from Unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121822
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Unemployment and Debt Dynamics in a Highly Indebted Small Open Economy
Heer, Burkhard - 2011
a highly indebted open economy. In contrast to the standard open economy framework, search unemployment and wage … intertemporal welfare gain, even though unemployment increases strongly in the short run. A 50% haircut of foreign debt … significantly reduces the initial response of the unemployment rate. In case of a temporary productivity shock, sticky wages imply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123217
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Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?
Holden, Steinar - 2011
We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …
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