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This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada … leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment invariance hypothesis for Canada. This is consistent with the empirical …
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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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Albania and North Macedonia, as many countries in South-Eastern Europe, struggle with youth unemployment which is … unemployment through two case studies: Luigj Gurakuqi (LG) the University of Shkodra in Albania and South-East European (SEE … logistic regression analysis is used to estimate the correlation between employment/unemployment and the various explanatory …
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document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …
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In this paper, we investigate the incidence of unemployment among the seven northeastern states of India and compared … it with all India figures. This is based on household level data on employment and unemployment collected by the NSSO for … the year 1993-94. The level of unemployment has been estimated considering the principal usual activity and current weekly …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …
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Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …
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The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
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interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drives the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052323