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complementaritiesstory. Unemployment of the least-skilled workers appears lower in areas with a higher share of college educated labor and …Difference in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
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Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the … shocks were large and widespread, and were particularly hard on older workers and women. Unemployment reached double digits … in all sample cities and labor force participation declined by 8 percent. Urban residents faced modest levels of wage and …
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Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this … between institutionally-differentiated groups of workers in China’s urban labor markets. An interesting hierarchy of returns …
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One of the major problems in developing countries is that of unemployment and underemployment. Thus the use of active … labor market policies constitutes a very significant part of the policy debate. This dissertation analyzes the training …
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high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on … jobs and unemployment. In addition, my model explains observed differences in labor market outcomes of different skill …My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment …
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For at least 15 years Members of Congress have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have closed? For at least 15 years they have continued to ask: How many U.S. manufacturing plants have relocated abroad, and where have they gone? For at least 15 years the answer has been: For...
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, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth", describing the … permanent nominal rigidities, and no departure from rational expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff …. Our analysis suggests that the US experience of the 1990s - in particular, the falling unemployment at moderate inflation …
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unemployment has been contributed to inflation; the word oil price has contributed to inflation, unemployment and the amount of …The purpose ot this study was to analyze the contribution of unemployment, world oil price, gross domestic product, the … amount of current financial circulation, net-government, rate of interest and exchange rate to the inflation in Indonesia …
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. We show that monetary policy delegation is therefore sub-optimal in achieving price-stability compared to labor …
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