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approach, the unemployment rate is on average 0.8 percentage points (ppts) higher than the official unemployment rate, with a …-cycle fluctuations in the unemployment rate from job separation, job finding, and participation. Correcting for misclassification changes … unemployment fluctuations, while participation accounts for fewer. The methodology I propose can be applied to any other labor …
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unemployment. However, in many middle-income countries, a relatively large government coexists with persistently high unemployment … to long-run. Our findings do not provide any evidence that public employment reduces unemployment rate. The analysis in …
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Presumptive income taxes in the form of a tax on turnover for SMEs are pervasive as a way to reduce the costs of compliance and administration. We analyze a model where entrepreneurs allocate labor to the formal and informal sectors. Formal sector income is subjected either to a corporate income...
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deflationary policy induces a reallocation of labor across sectors, but has no long-run effect on the unemployment rate …
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Intangible investment is growing as a share of economic activity. We present a simple framework incorporating its distinguishing characteristic of generally greater scalability and lower marginal costs than tangible investment. We show evidence that this may have contributed to more elastic...
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unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If sequencing is required, starting with PMRs would be more effective in boosting … output, while starting with LMRs would reduce unemployment faster. Finally, increasing unemployment benefits would be more …
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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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This paper discusses the influence of economic growth on the equilibrium unemployment rate (NAIRU). It examines how …
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This paper studies interactions between labor market institutions and unemployment dynamics in transition economies. It … main conclusions arises. First, higher unemployment benefits increase steady-state unemployment, and, during the transition … theoretically speed up the elimination of state sector jobs without affecting steady-state unemployment. These results are broadly …
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This paper examines the link between capital stock and unemployment persistence. An overlapping-generations model with … endogenous labor supply and imperfect competition is presented. It is used to interpret the unusual persistence of unemployment …, unemployment continues to be very high. The paper argues that an important part of the explanation lies in the decline of capital …
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