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labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global …
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persisting increases in unemployment. This paper analyses the impacts of the crisis on euro area labour markets, paying … accelerate the adjustment capacity of euro area labour markets and help reduce the current high levels of structural unemployment. …
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This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor in the rural areas, followed with a discussion of the poor in the informal sector. It then brings these two sectors together, with an examination of the poor and the urban/rural...
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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unemployment rate to measure its success, however, is misplaced. In a developing country with a large informal sector and in the … absence of unemployment insurance, open unemployment is primarily a middle-class phenomenon: the unemployed are not …
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form of involuntary part-time employment and headline unemployment rate. Both indicators have contributed positively to … cumulative core inflation since 2015 but headline unemployment rate much less so. The contribution of trend productivity growth … post-crisis period-has corresponded with slow pass through from declining unemployment rates to faster wage growth. We …
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employment. First, estimates of Okun's Law indicate that the response of Philippine unemployment and visible underemployment to … constant unemployment rate, through the notion of Harrod's natural growth rate and Okun's Law. Kalman filter estimation allows … output growth is very small. However, the response of total underemployment is positive and significant. Second, productivity …
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As a bottom-up approach, a Job Guarantee policy can tackle the issue of unemployment on the macroeconomic …
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economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that uctuations in the total … employment gap under stagnation are primarily driven by uctuations in underemployment instead of structural unemployment. Our …
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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