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We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from Social Security records to document earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, showed a substantial decrease during the 1997-2007...
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in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from … of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … from non-participation. Narrowing of the racial unemployment gap near the peak of the business cycle is driven by a …
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The rate of new household formation among young adults who live with their parents has decreased in the last twenty years, specially in Southern Europe. At the same time, exposure to the risk that a young adult loses his or her job has increased. We use differences in firing costs across...
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During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "The Expanding Leadership of Mid-Sized Organizations" he discusses why mid-sized companies have excelled and what they require to maintain their competitive advantage. During his lecture, he talks about: multinationals, the growth of imports, Boeing and...
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reduces the chances of employment and unemployment and increases the likelihood downtime. Per capita income is positively … related with the likelihood of downtime and employee and negatively with unemployment. The variable experience and schooling … likelihood of unemployment. Regarding the likelihood of unemployment, there is evidence of the existence of racial discrimination …
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Purpose – This paper contends that there is a positive relationship between current globalisation, unemployment … and “emic” perspective (authors’ viewpoint).Findings – A relationship between current globalisation, unemployment …, inequality and poverty should be investigated further. Unemployment increases levels of inequality and poverty within society …
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four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment … of various labor market and crime policies such as unemployment insurance, hiring subsidies and the duration of jail … sentences. For example, wage subsidies reduce unemployment, the crime rates of employed and unemployed workers, and improve …
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In the leading chapter of this dissertation, "Unemployment, Vulnerability and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, Its … Axiomatic Properties and Applications," we, Kaushik Basu and myself, derive a new class of measures for unemployment or poverty …. Measures of unemployment and poverty have usually focused solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty line …
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distribution, wages, and unemployment. This comparison is important not only because it compares developing vs. developed country …
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Why do dynamic inconsistencies in monetary policy exist? In this paper we present a traditional model with output inefficiencies, but we allow for monetary policy to be influenced by the various constituencies in the economy, that pressure the Congress to in turn pressure the central bank to...
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