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This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …
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This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … money and credit coexist. An increase in inflation affects unemployment through two channels: the matching channel and the … unemployment. On the other hand, the lower impact of inflation on formal transactions where credit is partially available shifts …
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This paper studies the impact of informality on the long-run relationship between inflation and unemployment in … money and credit coexist. An increase in inflation affects unemployment through two channels: the entry channel (size) and … entry and increasing unemployment. On the other hand, it shifts firms hiring decision from high separation informal jobs to …
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A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the...
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of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment at present, but the … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … measures are directed mainly at alleviating the sources of male unemployment. Employment deregulation in Japan embodies varying …
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achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months … after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since … the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269942
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
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Many individuals are grappling with the issue of whether to provide workers with training that upgrades the workers' basic academic skills. The corollary questions that flow from this issue are how to provide the training, how much training should be provided, and who should pay for the...
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