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Inflation has become much less sensitive to movements in unemployment in recent decades. A common explanation for this … unemployment gap which underlie the OECD’s Economic Outlook projections. The former OECD specification can be characterised as a … backward-looking specification, the anchored expectations approach also tends to imply larger unemployment gaps for those …
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picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …
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to facilitate hiring dynamics and to minimise long-term unemployment and scarring risks among vulnerable groups who have …
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model that features endogenous producer entry, equilibrium unemployment and costly job creation and destruction. Unlike in …, but some of them -- such as job protection reforms -- are found to increase unemployment temporarily. Implementing a broad …
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More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement....
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Spain is a highly decentralised country, making the effective implementation of national reforms dependent on regional policies. Some regional disparities are high and need to be reduced. High regional dispersion in education and job outcomes, compounded by low inter-regional mobility, emerge as...
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Job mobility is essential for a well-functioning market economy and for individual workers to boost their wages. This paper provides a re-assessment of job mobility in the United States during 2000-2018, based on a novel administrative data source covering almost all workers and job flows....
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This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this relationship has evolved since the downturn. We find that the employment penalty suffered by immigrant workers, relative to native workers, increased significantly over the Irish...
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