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unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 … significant are identified, and policies to reduce unemployment in French regions are examined. …
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This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity, which, in turn, is decomposed into e ffciency gains, technical progress and capital deepening. Data for Western European countries and the US show that the evolution of labour...
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This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
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unemployment rate, whereas no such relationship is found in other hospitals. This is consistent with public hospitals providing …-hospital employment and local unemployment is stronger the more left-wing the local municipality. This latter result holds especially when …
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impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment when considering heterogeneous … growth yields a reduction in the unemployment rates, for unskilled workers not getting trained growth fosters a rise in the … unemployment rates. …
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We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables (labour market regulation, union density, coordination in wage bargaining) to unemployment are a ffected by … estimation. In Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan and Spain, accounting for financial indicators mitigates the bene fits of labour …
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-term economic outlook, namely the Industrial Production Index and the Unemployment Rate. …
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In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … the persistence of unemployment. …
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Book review of "The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy". By Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg.
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