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An illfare approach to the measurement of unemployment : a reply

Paul, Satya - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2002

unemployment based on the distribution of completed spells will be superior than that based on the distribution of interrupted …

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Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …

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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Different Types of Workers in Honduras

Gindling, Tim; Terrell, Kathrine - 2006

minimum wage may increase unemployment (although the estimates arenot robust). There are no discernable effects of minimum …Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over … the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of …

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Gig Sector in the African Economy: Frameworks, Challenges and Prospects

Nwaobi, Godwin - 2024

Notably, Africa countries have enjoyed relatively strong economic growth for the past years (decade) mainly because of impressive global demand for primary commodities. Unfortunately, Africa’s economic growth had failed to generate many good jobs and thus postponing the benefits of the...

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Tasso di occupazione, orario di lavoro e distribuzione del reddito. Le condizioni alle quali i benefici degli aumenti della produttività oraria del lavoro sono indirizzati alla crescita dell’occupazione

Bonifati, Giovanni - 2024

The aim of this essay is to show how sustained growth in the employment rate, which should be taken as a strategic variable of economic policy, depends - for given growth rates of output and working age population - on two conditions: (a) allowing working hours to decline at the same rate at...

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Riduzione dell’orario e creazione di lavoro. Una nota critica-ostruttiva sulla proposta di legge depositata in Parlamento

Bonifati, Giovanni - 2024

hourly labour productivity. By holding employment growth and wage growth together, a working time reform would thus help to …

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Unpacking the persistence of informality

Villena-Roldán, Benjamin - 2024

of labor market transitions among formality, informality, unemployment, and inactivity. The flow into informality from … unemployment is the main force accounting for persistence, which suggests that informality is a temporary shelter from joblessness …

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Is Baumol's Cost Disease Really a Disease? Healthcare Expenditure and Factor Reallocation

Rude, Johanna; Weber, Lukas - 2024

Expenditures on healthcare and employment in the healthcare sector have been steadily increasing across OECD countries for many years. This shift of expenditure and employment towards a consistently found to be less productive sector has often been associated with the idea of Baumol’s (1967)...

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Demographic Change, Automation and the Role of Education

Rude, Johanna - 2024

This paper analyzes the relationship between demographic change and automation while taking the role of education into account. This is illustrated by incorporating skilled and unskilled labor into a theoretical model. If labor supply by households decreases, for example, due to demographic...

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Property crime and macroeconomic variables in Malaysia: Some empirical evidence from a vector error-correction model

Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook - 2008

In this study we investigated the long-run relationship between property crime and three macro-financial economic variables in Malaysia for the period 1973 to 2003. In order to avoid what the econometrician term as ‘spurious regression problem’ we estimate the model using the vector-error...

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