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between and within skill categories, as well as an increase in unemployment, especially among low-skill workers. Movements in … productivity, unemployment and inequality may thus be linked to induced overeducation and credentialism. …
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Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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Using a dynamic optimization model of a monetary economy where persistent unemployment can prevail, we examine the … commodity production and hence decrease consumption. However, if unemployment appears, they stimulate consumption and production …
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capable of dealing with both full employment and secular unemployment. The model is then utilized to examine the effect of a … expense of the foreign country. These results however are reversed in the presence of unemployment in both countries. We also …
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We estimate the link between exchange rate fluctuations and the labour input of Canadian manufacturing industries. The analysis is based on a dynamic model of labour demand, and the econometric strategy employs a panel two-step approach for cointegrating regressions. Our data are drawn from a...
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In this paper we analyze features of the recent business cycle with a New Keynesian small open economy DSGE model with labour market frictions and wage rigidity. The model complements the existing analytical tools of the Bank of Finland by enabling detailed analysis of labour markets in a DSGE...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between endogenous growth and unemployment. It provides knowledge diffusion as the … unemployment. …
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The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three … years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their … force”. And the detrimental effect of long-term unemployment is a structural impediment to becoming well-positioned to …
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Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about … the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This brief views the Beveridge curve pattern of … unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching function as proxies for the functioning of the labor market, and explores …
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aggregate fluctuations in the real economy. It builds on the recent theory of Imperfect Knowledge Economics in Frydman and … Goldberg (2007) and combines this with the Structural Slumps theory in Phelps (1994). The paper argues that this is likely to … imcrease our understanding of the long recurrent spells of high unemployment that continue to mar our economies …
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