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Oomes, Nienke - 2009

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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Migration, Search and Skill Heterogeneity

Oikonomou, Myrto - 2023

. On the one hand, migration releases unemployment pressures for the origin countries. On the other hand, it generates …

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What Matters for Job Finding and Separation in the Long Run? Evidence from Labor Market Dynamics in New Zealand

Zheng, Guanyu - 2022

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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Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk

Roca, Mauro - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

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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Emerging market business cycles : the role of labor market frictions

Boz, Emine; Durdu, Ceyhun Bora; Li, Nan - 2012

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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Search in the Labor Market Under Imperfectly Insurable Income Risk

Roca, Mauro - 2009

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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion : An Example

Gaumont, Damien - 2006

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Okun's Law; Fit at 50?

Ball, Laurence M.; Leigh, Daniel; Loungani, Prakash - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper asks how well Okunâ€™s Law fits short-run unemployment movements in the United States since 1948 and in … the unemployment rateâ€”varies substantially across countries. This variation is partly explained by idiosyncratic …

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Does Public-Sector Employment Fully Crowd Out Private-Sector Employment?

Behar, Alberto; Mok, Junghwan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Middle East, North Africa, Caucasus and Central Asia. These countries simultaneously display high unemployment rates, low …-sector employment rates or unemployment rates on two measures of public-sector employment point to full crowding out. This means that … rates and do not reduce overall unemployment rates. …

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Is Labor Market Mismatch a Big Deal in Japan?

Shibata, Ippei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Despite its low unemployment rate, the recent shift in the Japanese Beveridge curve indicates increased labor mismatch … crisis. Occupational mismatch accounted for approximtely 20-40 percent of the recent rise in the unemployment rate in Japan …

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