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This papers estimates the equilibrium exchange rate for Armenia using three different approaches: the purchasing power parity (PPP) approach, the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) approach, and the external sustainability (ES) approach. All three approaches suggest that the dram was...
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. On the one hand, migration releases unemployment pressures for the origin countries. On the other hand, it generates …
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Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching frictions and countercyclical...
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This paper develops a general equilibrium model with unemployment and noncooperative wage determination to analyze the … and unemployment but increases vacancies. Additionally, the model explains the average level of unemployment insurance …
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2022, vacancies reached record highs across all sectors while unemployment fell to pre-pandemic lows. At the same time, the …
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Tunisia has one of the highest unemployment rates within the Middle East and Central Asia. We look at the extent to … which institutional factors explain those high unemployment levels. We also assess unemployment cyclicality, by looking at … institutional factors that affect labor demand explain not only about a quarter of the unemployment rate increase in Tunisia, but …
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We use the novel anonymized Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) microdata to analyze job finding rates and job separation rates in New Zealand. We find that individual characteristics, including age, gender, ethnicity and education have a significant impact on job finding and separation rates,...
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Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …
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unemployment. Our results indicate that industry effects were a crucial driver of labor market outcomes for different groups of …
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