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Okun's law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the … replaced the United States UE with employment (EM) for the years 1977 to 2021 and examined how employment changed relative to … "jobless recovery" is that employment should not increase more rapidly than the real economy. …
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implementation of four strategies: First, investive social transfers, in particular by establishing a European Fund for Employment … and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …
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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and … unemployment benefits (UB) counter-reforms. The effects of counter-reforms depend on the prevailing economic conditions and are not …
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Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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This paper explores the short-term employment effect of deregulating job protection forregular workers and how it … of sectoral employment to largejob protection deregulation shocks depend crucially on the state of the economy at the …
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This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in which the environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …
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The results of previous research suggest that the elasticity of employment with respect to output is not constant … almost non-existent. Using the unemployment gap as the proxy for the maturity of the business cycle phase, this paper seeks … vulnerable to jobless growth. Our specification is based on the employment version of Okun's law, and estimates are provided for …
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what we actually have observed is a distinct pattern of employment deindustrialization rather than a severe decline in the … this article, I reassess the role of the manufacturing industry in the overall economy’s production growth and employment … GDP does not exhibit a long run declining trend as it does in other advanced countries. Secondly, I show that employment …
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