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Okun's law. However, in transition and emerging markets economies' context, the output-employment nexus has a much more … transition) countries to find out a discrepancy between the output and employment growth. Therefore, the employment elasticity … satisfactory employment growth, which is commonly referred to as a "jobless growth" hypothesis. Accordingly, this paper attempts to …
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In this study, we use Okun’s Law to examine whether growth has been jobless in seventeen MENA countries. The methods used are the ARDL approach for the individual country and the panel data analysis for the entire sample. The period considered in this study is from 1980 to 2013. To test for...
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Since the industrial revolution, technological innovations have enabled rise in productivity, employment, standard of … living and the tota l population several times. In the last 15 years productivity growth ha s slowed-down in the most of … expected to trigge r a slight acceleration in productivity, while explosive growth i n productivity, as predicted by some th …
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This paper, empirically, tests the validity of Okun’s law in Nigerian economy from 1980-2012. The two versions of the difference model approach of the Okun’s law are used even though one of them is frequently used in the literature. We utilize Var-cointegration method and examine the...
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In this paper, we analyze, by means of the difference version of Okun's law, the relationship between tourism sector growth and unemployment in Mexico during the period 2000Q2-2018Q4. The results show that tourism growth is a palliative for unemployment, whereas unemployment reduces the growth...
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and its effects on youth employment outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Annual data spanning 1995-2017 were obtained … found to have varying significant impact on youth employment in SSA. The policy implication is that to reverse the perennial …
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We study the impact of the pandemic on gender gaps in labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using the Swiss Labor Force Survey data, we document a significant increase in the gender gap in labor market participation. We find no evidence of a worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the...
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In this paper the authors propose that G20 countries endorse and facilitate the creation of a T20 digital platform for “Accelerating the Jobs of the Future”. In a world driven by a new wave of technological change, the platform would revalue the role of think tanks, research institutions and...
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