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In this paper we investigate the impact of the recent US unemployment benefits extension on the labor market dynamic … experiments suggest that, in contrast to the existing literature that ignores the liquidity trap situation, unemployment benefits … expansions cause a wage and inflationary pressure which curb the increase in real interest rate and slightly reduce unemployment …
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This paper analyses the impact of matching frictions in the Portuguese labour market on individual unemployment hazard … rates and unemployment durations. The coexistence of permanent contracts and temporary contracts in the Portuguese (dual … labour markets with higher contract-type mismatch rates are characterized by lower hazard rates and longer unemployment …
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unemployment for a given rate of economic growth. The increase in labor resources will in turn also yield faster growth rates in a …
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law with a focus on the dynamic part of the relationship. We find that the negative relationship between unemployment and … misspecification of the short run unemployment-output relationship. A mixed lag structure indirectly controls for missing explanatory …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
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unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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We explore a new approach to understanding the evolution of the unemployment rate in Australia. Specifically, we use … gross worker flows data to study the consequences of assuming that there is no unique equilibrium rate of unemployment but … rather a continuum of stochastic equilibrium rates which reflect the movement of the unemployment entry and exit rates over …
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