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Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...
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women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts …
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employment. First, estimates of Okun's Law indicate that the response of Philippine unemployment and visible underemployment to … constant unemployment rate, through the notion of Harrod's natural growth rate and Okun's Law. Kalman filter estimation allows … output growth is very small. However, the response of total underemployment is positive and significant. Second, productivity …
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form of involuntary part-time employment and headline unemployment rate. Both indicators have contributed positively to … cumulative core inflation since 2015 but headline unemployment rate much less so. The contribution of trend productivity growth … post-crisis period-has corresponded with slow pass through from declining unemployment rates to faster wage growth. We …
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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