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unemployment that is in line with other emerging markets and regional peers. We also find that the relationship has been somewhat … components of GDP may cause different unemployment reactions, an important issue that has not been sufficiently addressed in the …
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This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...
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Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …
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