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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...

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Are unemployment differentials among advanced economies still explained by the Shocks-and-Institutions Hypothesis?

Campos, Nauro F.; Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2024

The average unemployment rate in Europe has been consistently higher than in the United States since 1980. The main … explanation offered by a rather large economics literature focuses on the interaction between institutions and shocks. The … shocks (globalisation, China, etc.) and time-varying labour market institutions; and to offer a decomposition (using the …

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Unemployment, a Phenomenon of Global Imbalance. The Evolution in Romania in the Last 20 Years

Maria, Balan Ana - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 153-158

Unemployment is one of the negative phenomenon which occur with great intensity during the transition. It is … encountered in any economy; in our country, the unemployment have reached high proportions. As a global macro-flow, unemployment … the other side. The purpose of this article is to highlight the features of unemployment, the phenomenon existing in any …

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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America

Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023

This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates … focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added and … the unemployment invariance hypothesis in several countries appears to reflect some rigidities that prevent the …

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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata

Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006

unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; van Ours, Jan C. - 2014

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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - 2015

In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...

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