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Regional employment volatility is an undesirable phenomenon which describes a strongly fluctuating pattern of employment, thus, "instability" of a local economy. In the literature on this field, much of the attention has been paid to two main issues. First, a group studies has investigated the...
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The 2007 slowing in job growth in the New York-New Jersey region continued through August 2008. A projected weakening in the national economy through the end of 2008 combined with the market turmoil affecting New York City's finance sector suggests that the region will post substantially smaller...
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Employment growth in the New York-New Jersey region in 1998 is likely to match the previous year's pace of 1.7 percent, or 200,000 new jobs. Growth will continue in 1999, but it will slow modestly, to about 1.2 percent, or 145,000 new jobs
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The process of economic globalisation and liberalisation during the last two decades has reshaped the labour norms in India. As a result, the share of the informal workers in total employment has increased tremendously. During this period, a significant part of the incremental employment is...
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The paper examines the effects of three groups of factors (county economic structure, social/demographic attributes and geography) on employment growth and poverty change in US counties before and after the Great Recession. It finds that the industrial structure that facilitates inter-industry...
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' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric … adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide …
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' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric … adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide …
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In this paper we examine unemployment rate dispersion across the (statistical) regions in the Melbourne metropolitan … area. We find that the level of dispersion is positively correlated with the unemployment rate in all the regions taken … together and that the ‘elasticity’ of dispersion with respect to the unemployment rate is unity, with the result that there is …
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