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Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the emerging literatures in public health and economics on the...
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In recent decades, the U.S. labor market has become more unequal and polarized: wage differences have widened and middle-income jobs have been replaced by low- and high-income jobs. The rise in inequality and polarization have been more pronounced in large cities. I argue that this can be...
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a comparative perspective some of the issues like unemployment, role of the state and market, domestic versus foreign …
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …
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The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210414
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...
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