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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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This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey. …
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transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … higher probability of exiting employment for unemployment. Non-married men and women's unemployment rates are higher than … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
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In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular … employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment in Turkey is highly persistent, with orders …. We found evidence in favor of mean reversion in the case of female unemployment and this happens for all the groups of …
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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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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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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 considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...
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unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor …There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving …
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