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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...
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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957729
This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … money and credit coexist. An increase in inflation affects unemployment through two channels: the matching channel and the … unemployment. On the other hand, the lower impact of inflation on formal transactions where credit is partially available shifts …
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This paper proposes an equilibrium matching labor market model for developing countries where the interaction between public, formal and informal sectors is considered. Theoretical analysis shows that labor markets' liberalization reforms can be evicted by shifts in public employment. Since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622730
This paper studies the effects and causal links between the shadow economy and the unemployment rate using a dynamic … suggests that there is a unidirectional and negative causality running from the unemployment rate to the shadow economy in the … shadow economy and unemployment rate. The sensitivity of the results makes the authors realize that institutional quality …
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The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …
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proceedings outstanding against them. We employ a set of explanatory variables including long-term unemployment, socially excluded … the prevalence of debt enforcement proceedings, while long-term unemployment, the number of socially excluded localities …
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This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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institutions of labor market and remittances on unemployment. In our model, the remittances take the form of insurance against … involuntary unemployment. In this environment, it was shown that remittances sent by the diaspora provide consumption and savings … and increase the amount of national physical capital. Since the rate of unemployment decreases with the size of the …
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