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Who is hit hardest during a financial crisis? The vulnerability of young men and women to unemployment in an economic downturn
Verick, Sher - 2009
destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269413
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The great recession of 2008 - 2009: Causes, consequences and policy responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - 2010
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269861
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Giving up job search during a recession: The impact of the global financial crisis on the South African labour market
Verick, Sher - 2011
using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282463
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Who Is Hit Hardest during a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn
Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976899
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506085
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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371917
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The shift to services : a review of the literature
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ?classics?, however (Fisher (1935), Clark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261657
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377359
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Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F.; Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322505
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China's Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2020
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497841