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The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … on liquidity are hit disproportionally hard. This may explain why the unemployment rate in the US during the Great …
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Access to revolving credit more than doubled between 1983 and 1992 among both employed and unemployed households, and new evidence suggests that close to 20% of unemployed households use revolving credit to replace lost income. Labor markets have also experienced sluggish recoveries following...
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official U.S. definition of unemployment: people …, unemployment is involuntary). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple new Keynesian framework with no … capital and use the resulting model to discuss the concept of the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment. We then …
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productivity. The welfare state's tax-based social transfers and even unemployment benefits have not clearly harmed employment or …
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linear programming procedure. I apply the analysis to study state dependence in unemployment for working age high school … assumptions, I estimate that state dependence accounts for at least 30–40% of the four-month persistence in unemployment among …
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In the aftermath of the financial and economic crisis, large shares of working-age individuals in Italy either did not work or only to a limited extent. As the employment rate bottomed out in 2013, 32% were without employment during the entire year, and a further 7% had weak labour-market...
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linear programming procedure. I apply the analysis to study state dependence in unemployment for working age high school … assumptions, I estimate that state dependence accounts for at least 30-40% of the four-month persistence in unemployment among …
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-specific patterns of involuntary unemployment in the U.S. using the latest individual-level data. The estimates from a probit model show … that, so far, global human-capital outsourcing has not shifted the risk of unemployment from lower-skilled to higher …-skilled American workers. Overall, the probability of involuntary unemployment is negatively related with the worker's level of …
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Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. 18%...
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We propose a multi-country model with occupational choice, heterogeneous firms, unemployment, and revenue … tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …
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