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As China implements reforms under the “new normal,” maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth...
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Serbia) are characterized by some of the highest unemployment and low employment rates in Europe. We analyze the poor labor …
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We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …
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Unemployment pressures among nationals are emerging in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC … unemployment pressures while striking a balance between maintaining a liberal foreign labor policy and a reasonable level of …
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education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market … policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching significantly more difficult …
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compared to the U.S. and to EU peers. The limited regional labor mobility is associated with persistent unemployment … unemployment differentials, improve job matching efficiency, and remove pressures from regional fiscal redistribution …
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of interstate migration to relative labor market conditions hasdecreased, while the role of the unemployment rate as …
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correction models suggests that wage growth responds more quickly to changes in unemployment in the newer EU members than in … wage rises even as unemployment began to decline. Spillovers of subdued wage growth between euro area countries also …
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We show that domestic production networks shape worker flows between firms. Data on the universe of firm-to-firm transactions for the Dominican Republic, matched with employer-employee records, reveals that about 20 percent of workers who change firms move to a buyer or supplier of their...
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This study examines the socio-economic impact of special economic zones (SEZs) in Cambodia---a prominent place-based policy established in 2005. The paper employs a database on existing and future SEZs in Cambodia with matched household surveys at the district level and documents stylized facts...
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