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Public sector jobs are established by governments to directly provide goods and services. Governments may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research suggests that these effects are uncertain and...
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unemployment. However, state agencies must be able to ensure a suitable balance between services and quality, and to carefully …
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We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …
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JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores … the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of … increases in unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions …
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affects private sector employment, the unemployment level, and the unemployment duration in the transition economies of … private sector and a high unemployment level of long duration. The paper also addresses the issue of the optimal (output …
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This paper discusses the influence of economic growth on the equilibrium unemployment rate (NAIRU). It examines how …
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2022, vacancies reached record highs across all sectors while unemployment fell to pre-pandemic lows. At the same time, the … mortality due to COVID, and falling older-worker labor force participation were associated with larger upward shifts in the …
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Tunisia has one of the highest unemployment rates within the Middle East and Central Asia. We look at the extent to … which institutional factors explain those high unemployment levels. We also assess unemployment cyclicality, by looking at … institutional factors that affect labor demand explain not only about a quarter of the unemployment rate increase in Tunisia, but …
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This Selected Issues paper discusses reforming the state-owned enterprises (SOE) sector in Botswana. The authorities are committed to diversifying the economy and growing the relative size of the private sector but, until now, progress has been limited. Compared to other emerging markets, SOEs...
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