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Almost two years after the publication of the "Integrated Review", the British government has updated its security strategy. This "refresh" is primarily intended to adapt to the rapidly advancing development towards a contested and fragmented global order. Without indicating a radical shift, the...
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Global growth has slowed down recently. While the world economy should gradually regain pace over the coming quarters, overall growth momentum is expected to remain subdued. The recent drop in oil prices has not improved the outlook as it to a substantial degree signals weaker demand;...
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During the first half of the year global growth remained sluggish. While activity in emerging economies stabilized, growth in advanced economies softened. Over the next two years, we expect the world economy to pick up pace gradually, although without turning into a strong synchronized global...
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no significant relationship with employment, there is also statistically significant negative association with retail … increase first, or more directly, by reducing payroll rather than employment. While the economic significance of these results …
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The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of analysis, we argue that inflation could be understood only in terms of ongoing structural and...
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in …' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
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and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy …
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … dominated by a long-run trend, and firms tend to adjust hours worked and only then employment in the short run. There are …
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Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...
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