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The global crisis and the remedial actions: A nonmainstream perspective
Sen, Sunanda - 2011
The global financial crisis has now spread across multiple countries and sectors, affecting both financial and real spheres in the advanced as well as the developing economies. This has been caused by policies based on rational expectation models that advocate deregulated finance, with...
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Intermittent employment: Work histories of Israeli men and women, 1983-1995
Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009
This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of Jewish workers in Israel over the 13-year time period, 1983-1995. Work histories are constructed from a new joint database, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335992
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Intergenerational effects of trade liberalization
Artuç, Erhan - 2009
2002 Pew Global Attitudes survey shows that workers' support for free trade decreases with age. The relation between age and supporting free trade is a phenomenon previously unexplored by economists. We study distributional effects of trade liberalization, in particular age and gains from free...
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"Missing" workers and "missing" jobs since the pandemic
Hobijn, Bart; Șahin, Ayșegül - 2022
Since the start of the pandemic the U.S. labor market has been characterized as being plagued by missing jobs, i ….e. payroll employment has fallen more than five million jobs short of its pre-pandemic trend, and missing workers, i.e. the … of the data for two reasons. The first is that the number of missing jobs is inflated because it is based on the …
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Reorienting fiscal policy after the great recession
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2012
The paper evaluates the fiscal policy initiatives during the Great Recession in the United States. It argues that, although the nonconventional fiscal policies targeted at the financial sector dwarfed the conventional countercyclical stabilization efforts directed toward the real sector, the...
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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010
Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...
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Wage mobility in Israel: The effect of sectoral concentration
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - 2009
Using a unique eight-year data set, merging population census and national insurance data, the paper examines and compares patterns of wage mobility in Israel. First, the public and the private sectors are compared. Second, within each of these sectors, a distinction is made between sub-sector...
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Matching frictions, efficiency wages, and unemployment in the USA and the UK
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2007
This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA and the UK to derive the underlying structural parameters. Methods robust to weak instruments are used to show that, for both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency...
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Specific human capital and skills in Indian manufacturing: Observed wage and tenure relationships from a worker survey
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Abhishek, Kumar - 2020
growth in employment along with quality of jobs in the formal manufacturing sector. Against this background, the present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625355
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Has the time for a European job guarantee policy arrived?
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2023
and income support cashtransfers. And if the goal is to lead the way to a resilient and sustainable European Union …
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