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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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Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
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Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … framework with search and matching frictions, and, as an innovation, in the presence of sectoral heterogeneity. Family and non … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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This paper derives alternative measures of the short-run NAIRU (SRN) for the UK, the rate for unemployment at which … a beneficial impact on RPIX inflation over the last few years. We show that deviations of unemployment from the short …
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