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examining the relationship between output and demand as mediated by changes in unemployment, or Okun's law. We also demonstrate …
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Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …
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Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …
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Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …
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Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …
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between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate is extremely important. This tradeoff has become known as the Phillips … statistical technique that solves the omitted variables problem, to estimate the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment for … international context for the vast majority of the countries studied is affecting the inflation versus unemployment tradeoff. …
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This paper develops a model according to which the costs of business cycles are nontrivial because they reduce the average level of output. The reason is an interaction between job creation costs and an agency problem. The agency problem triggers separations during economic downturns even though...
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