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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642399
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The Effect of Unemployment on Labor Earnings Inequality: Argentina in the Nineties
González, Martín; Menendez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2000
In this paper we develop a methodology that allows us to quantify the effect of changes in unemployment rates on labor … simulated populations we are able to assess the impact of unemployment on earnings inequality. Additionally, we simulate changes … results suggest that unemployment accounts for a large part of the increase in earnings inequality that this country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150198
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The Effect of Unemployment on Labor Earnings Inequality: Argentina in the Nineties
González, Martín; Menendez, Alicia - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2000
In this paper we develop a methodology that allows us to quantify the effect of changes in unemployment rates on labor … simulated populations we are able to assess the impact of unemployment on earnings inequality. Additionally, we simulate changes … results suggest that unemployment accounts for a large part of the increase in earnings inequality that this country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005436015
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The Mexican Wage Curve 2000-2003: A Quantile Analysis
Elias Gutierrez Rufrancos, Hector - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2012
, and that wages are positively aected by local levels of unemployment. This lends credi- bility to the Harris and Todaro … (1970) view which suggests that there is segmentation in the labour market with residual unemployment. We argue that perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147513
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Evolution of social inequalities in health in Quebec?
Batana, Yélé Maweki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper, based on data from the National Population Health Surveys (NPHS) from 1994 to 2007, analyzes the evolution of social inequalities in health in Quebec since the mid-1990s using two health measures namely self-assessed health (SAH) and health utility index (HUI). Two methods are used....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636482
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Can Income Mobility Reduce Income Inequality? Evidence From Turkey
Guven, Aytekin; Dalgic, Basak; Tansel, Aysit - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2014
Increasing income inequality has made economists focus on income mobility issue which enables individuals to relocate their income position up to higher income groups. Income mobility and its effects on inequalities have begun to be investigated following 2000s and rather for developed countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859358
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Income mobility in Russia (2000–2005)
Lukiyanova, Anna; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 1, pp. 46-64
Using the data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS), this paper investigates income mobility in Russia during the period of rapid economic growth (2000–2005). Employing a broad set of mobility indices, we show that there is much mobility in household incomes from one year to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576207
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Modelling the behaviour of unemployment rates in the US over time and across space
Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesus; Panagiotidis, Theodore - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2013
Abstract This paper provides evidence that unemployment rates across US states are stationary and therefore behave … adjustment associated with unemployment shocks. A highly-dimensional VAR analysis of the half-lives associated with shocks to … unemployment rates in pairs of states suggests that distance between states and vacancy rates respectively exert a positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859356
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Shifts in the Beveridge curve
Diamond, Peter A.; Sahin, Aysegul - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014
has not been a good predictor of whether the unemployment rate at the end of the expansion following a shift was higher or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890134