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Accounting for Differences in Labour Market Outcomes in Great Britain : A Regional Analysis Using the Labour Force Survey
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Murphy, Philip D.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2005
decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or …Regional unemployment rates in Great Britain have narrowed dramatically in recent years. However, significant … differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276085
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The impact of the age distribution on unemployment : evidence from US states
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022 - This version: October 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460008
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Regional and sectoral evidence of the macroeconomic effects of labor reallocation : a panel data analysis
Bakas, Dimitrios; Panagiotidis, Theodore; Pelloni, Gianluigi - 2013
This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730867
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The Impact of the Age Distribution on Unemployment : Evidence from US States
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238011
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The Impact of the Age Distribution on Unemployment : Evidence from US States
Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022
Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243658
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Changing labour market participation since the Great Recession : a regional perspective
Cheung, Calista; Granovsky, Dmitry; Velasco, Gabriella - 2015
This paper discusses broad trends in labour force participation and part-time employment across different age groups since the Great Recession and uses provincial data to identify changes related to population aging, cyclical effects and other factors. The main population age groups examined are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478024
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The Swiss "job miracle"
Siegenthaler, Michael; Graff, Michael; Mannino, Massimo - 2014
While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for this "job miracle" were not well understood. As the "miracle" was not anticipated by economic forecasters, it consequently resulted in systematic and persistent forecast errors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438923
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Regional labor markets, network externalities and migration: the case of German reunification
Uhlig, Harald - 2007
, two equilibria can result: one with a high networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no … emigration (?West Germany?) and one with a low networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260567
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The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from Uganda
Strobl, Eric - 2012
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099095
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Regional and Sectoral Evidence of the Macro-Economic Effects of Labor Reallocation : A Panel Data Analysis
Bakas, Dimitrios - 2013
This paper re-examines Lilien's sectoral shifts hypothesis for U.S. unemployment. We employ a monthly panel that spans … stationarity of unemployment. Within a framework that takes into account dynamics, parameter heterogeneity and cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076600