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Does unemployment invariance hypothesis hold for Canada?

Tansel, Aysıt; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016

This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …

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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria

Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015

This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country's paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition approach, complemented with econometric estimation of...

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Are labor force participation rates really non-stationary? : evidence from three OECD countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. -- Labor Force Participation Rates …

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International labour force participation rates by gender : unit root or structural breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysıt - 2011 - Revised: May, 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Skills-biased labour demand and the pursuit of inclusive growth in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Goga, Sumayya; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2014

This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...

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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data

Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into …

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The ins and outs of unemployment in the long run : unemployment flows and the natural rate

Tasci, Murat - 2012 - This version: October 2012, First version: August 2010

This paper proposes an empirical method for estimating a long-run trend for the unemployment rate that is grounded in … the modern theory of unemployment. I write down an unobserved components model and identify the cyclical and trend … components of the underlying unemployment flows, which in turn imply a time varying estimate of the unemployment trend, the …

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Understanding Ghana's growth success story and job creation challenges

Aryeetey, Ernest; Baah-Boateng, William - 2015

Ghana's status as one of the African Lions is linked to the country's remarkable growth performance, which culminated in the attainment of lower middle-income status. However, employment response to growth has been weak. Additionally, growth has been accompanied by substantial reduction in...

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Earnings and employment microdata in South Africa

Kerr, Andrew; Wittenberg, Martin - 2019

Traditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period. More recently, administrative data from the South African Revenue Service has been made available, which allows for comparisons and an...

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Is there an informal employment wage penalty in Egypt

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2015

This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account observable...

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