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This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in treated locations. We then combine...
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Can green growth policies help protect the environment while keeping the industry growing and infrastructure expanding? This study applies Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method on the 50-years' time series data, from 1967 to 2015, of Kitakyushu City, Japan, and found mixed evidence for...
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targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …
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Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
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The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...
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overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
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endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …
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