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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...
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crowding out, as public sector hiring reduces private employment but the net impact of unemployment is negative. These findings …
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The study examines the relationship between unemployment and property crimes for Pakistan covering the period of 1975 … series data. The results of the cointegration analysis provide evidence of a valid long-run relationship between unemployment … to different kinds of property crimes. The causality results explain that unemployment Granger cause theft, dacoity …
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responsible for a substantial fraction of the variation in unemployment. The main purpose of this paper is to test the Lillien … hypothesis that sectoral shifts in employment are also responsible for fluctuations in aggregate unemployment for the Turkish … economy. The long run relationship between sectoral shifts, as measured by Lillien index, and unemployment along with the …
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may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …
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been predicted. But the standard measure of unemployment agreed at international level has some shortcomings. Its … “objective” definition of unemployment is a poor fit with the Italian labour market. Also, the considerable increase in labour … hoarding and the emergence of “semi-employment” – the alternation of brief periods of work with periods of unemployment or …
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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
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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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procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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