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causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
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the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
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To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in … beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of unemployment and infl ation provided by the short-run Phillips curve. Higher … volatility in ifln ation raises unemployment at low-frequency. Increased volatility in infl ation makes nominal wages more …
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unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...
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This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...
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