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unemployment duration model. The proposed methodology may be useful in labour intermediation by helping seekers to follow a …
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hazard models and assess what variables are important in determining unemployment duration. Our findings suggest that even … reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment …
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Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment … before the spell of unemployment will experience shorter spells of unemployment than workers who had a permanent contract … before. We adopt a flexible hazard rate model with a nonparametric baseline to analyse data on unemployment spells in Germany …
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This paper aims at estimating the impact of search strategies (effort and search channels) on unemployment duration. A … on the first job access duration, according to the type of job found. This article proposes an interpretation of the firm …
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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …
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negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …
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evasion and unemployment. This paper shows that the firm's decision to evade taxes also depends on trust in tax authorities …, and affects one of the most important macroeconomic variables: the unemployment rate. Also, the model is able to mimic the … and a reduction of tax evasion may decrease unemployment. …
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evidences indicating its dynamic character and its instrumental role in ameliorating unemployment and propelling the developing … into the diverse aspects of the ‘multidimensional’ informal sector, its role in the context of unemployment, child labour …
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Using data from a most recent national household survey in China, we provide new evidence for the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and labor market attainments. In contrast to previous studies, we find a non-linear relationship between BMI and employment / wages, especially for women....
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response to increased turbulence; overall the average duration of unemployment rises. Finally, we replicate the LS finding that …Australia has experienced a varied track record on unemployment. For the third quarter of the 20th century unemployment … averaged 2.0 per cent. This is bracketed by average unemployment rates of 8.6 and 7.4 per cent in the second and fourth quarter …
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