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evidence is only starting to catch up. In particular, EPL is not robust as an indicator of overall unemployment, but previous …
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real GDP per capita. All empirical relationships estimated in...
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Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for …. Nevertheless, the model explains between ~65% and ~95% of the variability in unemployment and inflation. For Italy, the rate of …
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Linear relationships between inflation, unemployment, and labor force are obtained for two European countries - Austria … and France. The best fit models of inflation as a linear and lagged function of labor force change rate and unemployment … inflation for the next ten years. In France, inflation lags by four years behind labor force change and unemployment allowing …
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Demographic change across the globe puts pressure on labour markets and public finances. Most studies on ageing focus on the projected development of the old age dependency ratio, being the ratio of persons 65 or older relative to the working age population. This ratio gives a very incomplete...
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This paper studies the spatial distribution of unemployment by gender, in the counties of Romania, in 2008.The Lorenz … curve and Gini index are used to identify a pattern of spatial concentration of unemployment, differentiated by gender …. Evaluation of gender differences in unemployment spatial concentration model shows significant differences. There is a greater …
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years, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment, which would be around 11.5% in 2010 in the euro area. However, labour … soften the impact of much higher unemployment levels on Europe's potential rate of growth in the future. …
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, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is …
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