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In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...
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In Catalonia, between 2008 and 2014, the rate of youth unemployment has exponentially increased and it has turned into …
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youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …
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the Beveridge curve in Austria. We find empirical evidence to confirm that the increase in the unemployment rate in …
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Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …
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considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …
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Early, the convergence theory was suggestively expressed in the Solow model. This can be shown in line with the fact that while economic development is advancing (expressed by the income per capita growth), on long run there is a general convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical...
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The creative sector is one of the driving forces of total employment growth. Furthermore, economic studies suggest that the clustering of human capital might result in the polarization of economic development. Since the creative sector's de nition is motivated from the insights of the economics...
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Population changes are decisive for growth performances. This has been shown in a number of country studies, using time series data. The analysis is here extended in two dimensions: 1) the importance of demographics for growth is taking in to account a regional dimension allowing for spatial...
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A higher level and continuous education throughout entire life (necessary for adapting to the changes in the labor market) and a better health offer greater chances of sustained economic and social development. Also, a higher education level contributes to decrease the disparities between...
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