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secondary sources to assemble two new databases on wages and commodity prices to establish a new regional consumer price index …This paper presents new estimations of wages for Normandy between 1600 and 1850. We used a vast array of primary and … resulting labour shortage, led to a convergence of wages across unskilled occupations and a relative catch-up with urban skilled …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with … prices tend to increase in the short-term. The probability of observing a decrease in household well-being among hosts is …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with … prices tend to increase in the short-term. The probability of observing a decrease in household well-being among hosts is …
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to household well-being, prices, employment, and wages. All studies can be classified as ex post quasi … nonsignificant, and 6 to 20 percent show a decrease in household well-being. The analyses on employment and wages show positive and … significant results for 22 to 25 percent of the results. Negative results on employment and wages relate to young and informal …
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The unemployment rate provides an important gauge of spare capacity in the labour market and the economy more generally. However, other factors also affect unemployment, which complicates its interpretation when informing monetary policy. Statistical methods can be used to estimate the extent to...
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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Ghana's economy. In particular, the paper sheds light on how changes in wages affect the short-run and long-run dynamics of … labor productivity, employment and prices in the agricultural and the manufacturing sectors. The empirical results indicate … that shocks to wages have no significant impact on employment in the two sectors. While a wage increase does not encourage …
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Over the past decade, productivity-adjusted wages have grown at a slower pace in Japan than in other rich countries … protection and benefits between regular and nonregular workers could help put Japan's wages on an upward trajectory in the medium …
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In this paper, a set of neural network (NN) models is developed to compute short-term forecasts of regional employment … forecasting range. Next, additional forecasts are computed, by combining the NN methodology with Shift-Share Analysis (SSA). Since … differences in the size and time horizons of the data, the forecasts for West and East Germany are computed separately. The out …
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