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Petropoulos, Georgios - 2021

Rapid technological progress poses challenges for labor markets. Automation can both displace and create jobs. Currently, an unprecedented digitalization of our economy is underway. Artificial intelligence has become a reality and machines are able to learn how to outperform humans in some...

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Home schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic : an assessment of Malaysia's PdPR Program

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2022

Governments around the world have introduced a variety of programs aimed at facilitating distance learning in the home setting during school closures due to COVID-19. However, given the cross-country variations in state capacity, these programs differ significantly in terms of design, delivery,...

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Back to school after COVID-19 pandemic : resumption or transitional disruption?

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2023

Since its onset in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has globally disrupted school operations, leading to a shift to some form of homeschooling arrangements. After two years, in March 2022, the government of Malaysia officially reopened all schools, ending its homeschooling program. This relatively...

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Exchange rate behavior with negative interest rates : some early negative observations

Hameed, Allaudeen; Rose, Andrew - 2017

Economic and Monetary Union, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland - experienced negative nominal interest rates. We examine both …

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Demographics, labor mobility, and productivity

Wilson, Edgar J.; Jayanthakumaran, Kankesu; Verma, Reetu - 2012

This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which migrants...

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Impacts of Covid-19 on households' business, employment and school education : evidence from household survey in CAREC countries

Azhgaliyeva, Dina; Mishra, Ranjeeta; Long, Trinh; … - 2022

The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak have heavily affected Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries, which include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and...

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Decline in oil prices and the negative interest rate policy in Japan

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad - 2016

In April 2013, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) introduced an inflation target of 2% with the aim of overcoming deflation and …, the BOJ has to reduce its 2% inflation target in the present low oil price era. Secondly, it argues that Japan cannot make … even if interest rates are set too low. Japan's long-term recession is due to structural problems that cannot be solved by …

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Oil price fluctuations and oil consuming sectors : an empirical analysis of Japan

Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Rasolinezhad, Ehsan; … - 2015

oil price volatility on each sector in Japan, the world's third-largest crude oil consumer. In order to do so, we apply a …, which led to the shutdown of nuclear power plants in Japan, because of greater reliance on oil imports, the sensitivity of …

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Impact of quantitative easing and tax policy on income inequality : evidence from Japan

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Shimizu, Sayoko - 2018

From April 2013 until May 2016, Japan's monetary base rose from ¥155 trillion to ¥387 trillion as part of the Bank of … Japan's (BOJ) quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) monetary policy for achieving a price stability target of 2 … gross domestic product. The empirical results reveal that the QE and QQE monetary policy of the Bank of Japan increased …

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The effectiveness of Japan's negative interest rate policy

Yoshino, Naoyuki; Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad; Miyamoto, … - 2017

In April 2013, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) introduced an inflation target of 2% with the aim of overcoming deflation and … reduce its 2% inflation target in the present low oil price era. Secondly, it argues that Japan cannot make a sustainable … interest rates are set too low. Japan's long-term recession is due to structural problems that cannot be solved by its current …

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