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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Grethe, Harald - 2020
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria
Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024
the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534535
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The rise and fall of Spanish unemployment : a chain reaction theory perspective
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2008
The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full-employment levels of the early seventies … were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD countries in the aftermath of the oil price … shocks. While unemployment was extremely persistent in most of the eighties and nineties, it experienced its sharpest decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003765970
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Labour market dynamics in Australia : what drives unemployment
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003799513
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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020
We study the distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic's impacts on employment. Using CPS data on stocks and flows, we show that the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing inequalities. Although employment losses have been widespread, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224341
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Imposition of MAT on SEZs : concerns and the way forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Bhardwaj, Bhavook - 2016
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...
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The impact of nurse turnover on quality of care and mortality in nursing homes : eevidence from the Great Recession
Akosa Antwi, Yaa; Bowblis, John R. - 2016
instrumental variable estimation that uses the unemployment rate as an instrument for nursing turnover. We find that ignoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412301
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Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis
Montebello, Roberta; Darmanin, Jude - 2021
This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years since 2000, in the context of significant structural...
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Search and multiple jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022428
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Who suffers during recessions in Brazil?
Cravo, Túlio; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019
evidence of large heterogeneities among demographic groups. Interestingly, unemployment rates in levels across demographic … groups are not necessarily aligned with the sensitivity of these demographic groups’ (un)employment and participation rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991880