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relatively fast employment growth in the past decade. Employment growth was not sufficient to reduce unemployment because of … rapid population growth and increased labor force participation. This paper shows that Philippine employment growth and …
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employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural … and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the … reducing government size have a significant and positive impact on employment elasticities. In addition, the results also …
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The recent crisis has had differential effects across U.S. states and industries causing a wide geographic dispersion in skill mismatches and housing market performance. We document these facts and, using data from the 50 states plus D.C from 1991 to 2008, we present econometric evidence that...
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may hamper employment creation. The results of the paper suggest that the relative low output-employment elasticities and …
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This paper finds a negative relationship between the employment share of the service sector and the volatility of …
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We examine the impact of real exchange rate fluctuations on sectoral and regional employment in China from 1980 to 2008 …. In contrast to theoretical predictions, employment in both the tradable and non-tradable sectors contracts following a … with employment data at the region-sector level. The results of this paper have important implications for China's labor …
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We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment … significant change in aggregate employment. …
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … policies to cushion the employment impact in the transition, particularly in meeting the skills gap of associated with this …
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