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Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy
Asali, Muhammad; Gurashvili, Rusudan - 2019
larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a … associated with increased ethnic wage discrimination - in line with the predictions of Becker's theory of discrimination. …, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is …
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Labor market dynamics in Tunisia : the issue of youth unemployment
Stampini, Marco; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment over the next few years. Second, forecasts indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235589
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Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia : The Issue of Youth Unemployment
Stampini, Marco - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to 2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment over the next few years. Second, forecasts indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127324
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A model of gender inequality and economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women's time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child education. The theoretical model is based on Agénor (2012), but differs in several important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431771
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A Model of Gender Inequality and Economic Growth
Kim, Jinyoung - 2016
This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women's time allocation among market production, home production, child rearing, and child education. The theoretical model is based on Agénor (2012), but differs in several important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998107
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Individuals' unemployment durations over the business cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2001
Using a large panel of administrative records this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with economic growth. However, the ranking model of...
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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Long-Run Unemployment Rate
Kögel, Tomas - 2007
This paper provides evidence for a positive effect of total factor productivity growth on unemployment in cross-country regressions for OECD countries. The paper explains this empirical result with an exogenous growth model with unemployment due to unions and a CES production function with an...
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Individuals' Unemployment Durations Over the Business Cycle
Kalwij, Adriaan - 2021
Using a large panel of administrative records this study confirms the predictions of the ranking model of Blanchard and Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases with economic growth. However, the ranking model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320786
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The Great Recession Was Not so Great
Submitter, CentER - 2015
The Great Recession is characterized by a GDP-decline that was unprecedented in the past decades. This paper discusses the implications of the Great Recession analyzing labor market data from 20 OECD countries. Comparing the Great Recession with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is...
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Okun in the euro : new evidence from structural Okun law’s estimates for the euro area, 1979-2019
Campos, Nauro; Macchiarelli, Corrado; Mitropoulos, Fotios - 2024
This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and 2019. We find our structural estimates are stable but substantially lower than the reduced-form estimates that tend to characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of...
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