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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; 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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A 2011 Social Accounting Matrix for the West Bank with detailed representation of households and labour accounts
Agbahey, Johanes U. I.; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2016
SAM are obtained from various official sources in Palestine, mainly the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725374
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A 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bhutan with a detailed representation of the agricultural sector
Feuerbacher, Arndt; Dukpa, Chencho; Grethe, Harald - 2017
This paper develops a 2012 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bhutan with a detailed representation of the agricultural sector. Given the availability of extensive household, labour force and agricultural survey data as well as a large dataset of audited company reports, a bottom-up approach is...
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Unfulfilled expectations and labor market interactions: A statistical equilibrium theory of unemployment
Scharfenaker, Ellis; Foley, Duncan K. - 2021
level of frictional unemployment as a statistical feature of a decentralized labor market. Shocks to the economy can produce … short-run equilibrium involuntary unemployment arising from unfulfilled expectations. Even after agents align their … negative shock to demand can result in higher levels of equilibrium unemployment. In this way the model exhibits a particular …
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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market
Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014
The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …
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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies Across OECD Countries
Amaral, Pedro S.; Tasci, Murat - 2014
We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential...
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Job displacement risk and severance pay
Cozzi, Marco; Fella, Giulio - 2016
This paper is a quantitative, equilibrium study of the insurance role of severance pay when workers face displacement risk and markets are incomplete. A key feature of our model is that, in line with an established empirical literature, job displacement entails a persistent fall in earnings upon...
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The Palestinian labor market over the last three decades
Hallaq, Sameh - 2020
and human capital. Earnings and unemployment are the main labor market indicators, while the human capital impact was …
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
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Virtues of SIN: Effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program
Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per - 2006
estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work …
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