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unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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In this paper, we provide compelling evidence that cyclical factors account for the bulk of the post-2007 decline in the U.S. labor force participation rate. We then proceed to formulate a stylized New Keynesian model in which labor force participation is essentially acyclical during “normal...
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that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …
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employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …
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decline given population aging. This paper’s measure of the “employment gap” also suggests that labor market slack remains and … employment. In addition, given the continued downward pressure on the LFPR, labor supply measures will be an essential component …
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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …
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