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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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months of the pandemic when a strict lockdown was in place. Differences in unemployment rates across local labour markets …
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, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …
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large, long-term photovoltaic invest scheme in Germany. Comparing counties with high and low unemployment both over time and …
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This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …
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We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential...
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. In this paper, we empirically analyze how local unemployment rates affect enrollment decisions in Turkey during the … undergraduate programs decreases during periods of and in regions experiencing higher unemployment, whereas the enrollment in high …
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...
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