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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
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How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this question on a panel of OECD countries, which also incorporates the period of the Great Recession. We distinguish between passive and active labour market...
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made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …
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This paper revisits the dynamics of unemployment rate for 29 OECD countries over the period of 1980-2013. Numerous … empirical studies of the dynamics of unemployment rate are carried out within a linear framework. However, unemployment rate can … time series exhibits nonlinear behaviour. Our empirical findings provide significant evidence in favour of unemployment …
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This is the first study to evaluate the effects of early pension withdrawal policies on tenures on unemployment … half-a-million Australians who found themselves newly on an unemployment payment in the initial months of the COVID-19 … pandemic, between April and June 2020, resulted in a 32 per cent lower exit rate from unemployment benefits inside the first …
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On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...
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they joined the establishment from unemployment This is supportive of equal treatment. We also show that a four parameter … series properties and co-properties of real wages, output, and unemployment, in particular the asymmetric response of wages …
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-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …
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unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a … connection to the wage bargaining system. Amid the absence of effective labor market institutions to make rigidities less …
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