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Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …
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decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
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market between employment, unemployment, and professional inactivity. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe drop in the …
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decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762298
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the U.S. economy and labor market. We assess the initial spike in unemployment due to … the virus response and possible paths for the official unemployment rate through 2021. Substantial uncertainty surrounds … the path for measured unemployment, depending on the path of the virus and containment measures and their impact on …
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-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …
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circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
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stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
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circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … Tella et al. (2001) to explore sectoral unemployment levels, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency as LS …-stage, we regress LS measures against the unemployment level, labour market tightness, and matching efficiency. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233233