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There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...
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: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …
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This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population … aging has had a large effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …
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frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …
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employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual … outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment rates according to its official … statistics. This paper calculates, for the first time, China's unemployment rate from 1988 to 2009 using a more reliable …
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We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …
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