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Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in … force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to inflation and labor force was developed and successfully tested for … Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States. Autoregressive properties of neither of these variables are …
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I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …
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projections and the uncertainty created by the financial meltdown, the outlook for employment has deteriorated considerably. This … after 2-3 quarters. On current policies, the Commission projects employment growth to turn negative during the next two … years, accompanied by a steep rise in unemployment, which would be around 11.5% in 2010 in the euro area. However, labour …
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I construct a matching model to explain the labor market transition between employment, unemployment and … in the layoff rate, and this results in an increase in the unemployment-to-population ratio. Finally, firing costs make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015225304
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and …
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This study measures the responsiveness of female labour participation to changes in the economic cycle at the extensive margin in Latin America. The results provide new evidence regarding the cyclical behaviour of the female labour force participation, making it possible to determine which...
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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding …
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discouraged and frustrated to look for work. Unemployment rate is highest among people with secondary education, followed by … employed population is in self-employment without employees. On the gender dimension of the labour market dynamics, we show … that women have the greater share of the level of employment but with poorer quality jobs compared to their male …
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How costly are the imperfections of conditional welfare programs? Should we replace these programs with a Universal Basic Income (UBI)? We answer these questions using a general equilibrium model with incomplete markets, accounting for three overlooked imperfections of real-life conditional...
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Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young … work on the relationship between reservation wages and unemployment we differentiate between wages in different sizes of …
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