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This work analyzes the saving and consumption behavior of agents faced with the possibility of unemployment in a … dynamic and stochastic life cycle model. The intertemporal optimization is based on Dynamic Programming with a backward …
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notifications of 1340/100 000 in 1996. These suburbs are characterised by overcrowding, high unemployment and poverty. It is … tuberculosis notifications were found with unemployment, overcrowding and number of shebeens per enumerator sub-district. High … tuberculosis notifications with unemployment and its associated poverty emerged as the strongest association. …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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This article estimates the cost of a public investment-led job creation programme for the United Kingdom. A programme creating an additional one million jobs at the current average wage would involve a net cost to the Treasury dramatically lower than the gross cost; £17 billion worth of...
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. However, depending upon the relative tightness of the local labour market (reflected in the rates of hiring and unemployment …. The significance of quits, hires, and unemployment are explored, in an attempt to explain differential urban wage …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …
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Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unemployment, this is …
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This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
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Education became one of the largest sub-system of modern societies in the past century. The role of education is no longer interpreted only as the conveyor of culture, knowledge and values, but it is also attributed a significant role in its contribution to economic development and the promotion...
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