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The unemployment rate in Greece rose from a mere 2.2% in the 1970s to 6.4% in the 1980s and 10% approximately in the … mid-1990s. Currently, it gravitates around that level. In this paper we present the stylized facts of unemployment in …
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year time horizon, are in a statistical sense close to invisible with respect to employment and unemployment stocks, and … likely any period at all, of unemployment. Our results should not be taken to mean that economic policy reform is costless to …
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In the U.S., the cross-state differences in unemployment rates are large - for instance, large compared to variations … in the national unemployment rate over time. At the same time, there is considerable labor mobility within the U.S.; in … fact, enough that, if migration arbitrages differences in unemployment, one might expect very low cross-state differences …
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In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …
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In this Manifesto, we make a set of proposals to fight unemployment in the EU. We believe that the European … unemployment problem needs to be attacked on two fronts: through a broad spectrum of supply-side policies and the demand management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159120
be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …
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The increase of the production factors’ mobility, given the facts of the economic and financial globalization, brought again into focus the attractiveness of different states at the world level. This study is focused on the analysis of conceptual term of fiscal competition, from traditional...
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This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
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We develop a balanced growth model with labor supply and search and matching frictions in the labor market to study the impact of economic policy variables on the two margins which constitute the (total) labor input: the extensive one (the rate of employment) and the intensive one (the hours...
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