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Labor market reform options to boost employment in South Africa
Duval, Romain; Ji, Yi; Shibata, Ippei - 2021
Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP per capita by 50 to 60 percent and reduce income inequality dramatically in the long term. By putting further strain on an already fragile labor market, Covid-19 has raised the...
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Disequilibrium in the Labor Market in South Africa
Chadha, Bankim - 1994
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Labor market dynamics : a hidden Markov approach
Shibata, Ippei - 2019
This paper proposes a hidden state Markov model (HMM) that incorporates workers' unobserved labor market attachment into the analysis of labor market dynamics. Unlike previous literature, which typically assumes that a worker's observed labor force status follows a first-order Markov process,...
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Medium-term fiscal multipliers during protracted recessions
Dell'Erba, Salvatore - 2014
The paper examines the consequences of fiscal consolidation in times of persistently low growth and high unemployment … unemployment at five-year horizons are significantly above one during PR episodes. These results suggest that medium-term fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411769
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Shocking Aspects of Canadian Labor Markets
Sutton, Bennett - 2006
using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …
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To Fire or to Hoard? : Explaining Japan’s Labor Market Response in the Great Recession
Steinberg, Chad - 2011
The Great Recession pushed Japan’s unemployment rate to historic highs, but the increase has been small by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403441
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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK
Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022
Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment...
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South Africa : labor market dynamics and inequality
Anand, Rahul; Kothari, Siddharth; Kumar, Naresh - 2016
This paper analyzes the determinants of high unemployment in South Africa by studying labor market dynamics using … on unemployment. The paper also explores the contribution of unemployment towards inequality. Reducing unemployment is … found to be important for reducing inequality - estimates suggest that a 10 percentage point reduction in unemployment …
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South Africa : the cyclical behavior of the markups and its implications for monetary policy
Klein, Nir - 2011
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Cyclicality of Revenue and Structural Balances in South Africa
Aydin, Burcu - 2010
This paper applies a disaggregated method for the calculation of the cyclical component of the budget balance for South Africa with an emphasis on the effect of commodity and asset prices, and credit cycle. Results show that the cyclicality of tax revenue is mostly explained by the variations in...
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