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Asynchronous risk: Unemployment, equity markets, and retirement savings

Seligman, Jason S.; Wenger, Jeffrey B. - 2005

The link between unemployment and pension accumulations is conceptually straightforward; periods of unemployment lead … of the timing and frequency of unemployment spells. We hypothesize that unemployment is more likely during periods in … generated unemployment spells for men and women across the earnings distribution. We find lower income workers suffer greater …

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Do government sponsored vocational training programs help the unemployed find jobs?

Nivorozhkin, Anton; Nivorozhkin, Eugene - 2005

The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.

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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017

panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …

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Where next for monetary policy? Lessons from the financial crisis and the pandemic

Minford, Patrick - 2023

Monetary developments of recent decades began with much promise with inflation targeting by independent central banks; the financial crisis of 2007 ushered in a period of great monetary instability. There are lessons for a return to more stability. Central banks need to stabilize money supply...

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Modelling the effects of Brexit on the British economy

Minford, Patrick; Zhu, Zheyi - 2023

We estimate the short run effects of Brexit border disruption on the UK economy. We estimate a structural VAR for the UK where Brexit effects are identified by the dates of Brexit events, the referendum and the exit from the single market. We find evidence of short run effects of Brexit:...

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The incidence and cost of job loss in the Ukrainian labor market

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2005

We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. Displacement rates in the Ukrainian labor market average between 3.4 and 4.8 percent of employment,...

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Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition: A comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - 2006

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …

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