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2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … over the next few years. Second, forecasts indicate that the growth of private sector services has the highest potential to …
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This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … the process by which inflation targeting is hypothesised to influence inflation and growth, Section 3 surveys this … policy does not necessarily help to reduce inflation and certainly does not stimulate economic growth. …
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We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey …
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than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee … influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … us to employ the rest of regional Turkey as control group with a difference-in-difference approach to analyze the impact …
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-of-living crisis, focusing on both Turkey and the South Caucasus region, which have different welfare regimes and patterns of price … changes. This paper explores the impact of inflation and uses compensating variations and equivalized incomes to measure … shifts in welfare in a cross-country comparative context. The effects of inflation are closely related to specific price …
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In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...
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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
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This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups. The evidence collected shows that there is no...
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Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country relying extensively on this instrument. We present evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of...
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