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European (CEE) members of European Union (EU) during the period 2000 to 2007 has contributed to the decline in unemployment … decade, emigration indeed had a strong negative effect on unemployment in these countries. A 10 per cent increase in … emigration rate leads to around 5 per cent decrease in unemployment rate. Given the minor effect of immigration on host countries …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
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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 job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one …
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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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that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …
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We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology -unlike recent papers in the same...
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Till the early-1990s the collectively-bargained labor contract (between the trade-union that presented the employees, and the employer or the employers'-association) was the norm, granting salaried workers a stable and protected labor contract. Thereafter, and more significantly after 1995, the...
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opportunities, here expressed as the unemployment rate differential for each single territory with respect to its surroundings …
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