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longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …
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This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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wage, unemployment, and non-employment structures between 1988 and 1998, when both unemployment and non-employment rates … moderation on average. Although there have also been virtually no changes in the unemployment structure, the relative non …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214
impact of the unemployment rate itself. This pattern holds across recent decades in the US data, and the relationship … strengthens in recent years when variation in participation increases. We also examine the impact of long-term unemployment on … wages and find it has no different effect from that of short-term unemployment. Our analysis provides strong empirical …
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