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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in …, the economy contracted by more than it had since the Great Depression. A slow and steady recovery followed the Great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405441
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
of economic growth and the initial state of the economy. Although growth may lead to increasing employment (formal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624
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The impact of government spending on GDP in a remitting country
Al-Abri, Almukhtar S.; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2018
The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance inflows on the receiving economies. Little has been done on the sending economies. In this paper, we use data from Saudi Arabia, one of the top remitting countries in the world, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881574
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What factors influence firm perceptions of labour market constraints to growth in the MENA region?
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - 2015
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining the implications of firm characteristics, national locations, and sectoral associations for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347186
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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household … growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure of the economy map into changes in inequality? We explore dimensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594144
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Rapid economic growth but rising poverty segregation : will Vietnam meet the SDGs for equitable development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Minh Do; Cuong … - 2023
Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few … extensive province-level data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) for every alternate year between 2002 … suggest that policy makers in Vietnam should focus on reducing spatial disparities and income inequality in order to attain …
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388328
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An evaluation of the workforce investment act adult program in Minnesota : lessons from the financial crisis
Bendewald, Ellen; Maryns, Nicholas; Robertson, Raymond - 2016
Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518089
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A survey of the role of fiscal policy in addressing income inequality, poverty reduction and inclusive growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345543
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Inequality in EU crisis countries : how effective were automatic stabilisers?
Callan, Tim; Doorley, Karina; Savage, Michael - 2018
The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality and how well tax-benefit systems redistribute. We examine how the distribution of income in the EU countries which were hardest hit during the recession evolved over this time....
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