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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States

Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …

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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a … indicate that there is no long-run relationship between labor force participation and unemployment rates in Turkey. Thus …, unlike in the case of the developed countries the unemployment invariance hypothesis is supported in Turkey …

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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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Prospects of Employment Growth in Andhra Pradesh

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The present paper examines the changes in work participation rates, participation rate in education and the growth of employment, and explores the prospects of employment growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh (India) in the scenario of declining population growth which acts as a limiting factors...

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The use of labor in Romania: present and perspective

Balan, Ana Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

For the efficient running of activities in the labor market it is required a rational use of working age people. This article analyzes theoretically and then in terms of its evolution, the use of labor in terms of employment, taking out the values which people actually occupied, so used, have...

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Employment Growth by Accelerated Manufacturing in India- A Comparative Study and Lessons to Be Learnt from China

Acharya, Hem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

It is the popular belief that employment growth should have been at an equal pace with the growth of Manufacturing industry in India post major economic reforms in 1991, but number of studies show that it hasn’t been so. Though it’s seen that employment has indeed increased post 1991 reforms...

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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

youth unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful activities. Hence to understand India …

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中国对外出口的区域劳动力市场效应

Zhang, Chuanchuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

One striking phenomena of the macro economy in China during the past decade is the rapid exporting growth. Exporting growth provides strong demand for domestic manufacturing production and is one of the most important engines of economic growth. Using population census data and trade data, this...

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A quarter of a century: mobility and stagnation in India’s rural labour market

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Transformation of the countryside from agrarian subsistence economy to non-farm monetised economy is propagated as a precursor of growth and development and involves shifting of labour from farming to off-farm activities. India has started its journey in this path but has a long way to go....

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The employment effect of minimum wage using 77 international studies since 1992: A meta-analysis

Chletsos, Michael; Giotis, Georgios P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Until the early 90’s a strong consensus existed among economists that minimum wage has negative employment effects. However, in 1992, the studies by Card (1992a) and Katz and Krueger (1992), who found insignificant and slightly positive effects, respectively, came to create a schism. Since...

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