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This paper analyses the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions by using matched establishment-level data from Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with the effects arising from two different types of...
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The claim that the unemployed should be allocated to ‘government as employer of last resort’ schemes (like the WPA in the US in the 1930s) has major flaws. One flaw is the assumption that public sector work of this sort is less inflationary than private sector employment. A second flaw is...
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This study explores the effect of intra-African migration on total unemployment and youth unemployment. It further distils the effect of intra-African migration on male and female youth unemployment and later employs a two-level estimation approach to determine gravity models of migration using...
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This study examines the complex relationship between unemployment and inflation in Turkey over a 64-year period, from 1960 to 2023. Utilizing correlation analysis and simple linear regression, we investigate the long-term connection between these two key macroeconomic indicators. Our findings...
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The presented article deals with labour market institutions and labour market performance in the European Union. The first chapter is devoted to theoretical and methodological background of labour market performance. Theoretical literature has created a set of institutional aspects such as...
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This contribution aims to deepen the analysis of employment in Italy, emphasizing that many structural problems in the labor market remain unresolved, despite the positive economic outcomes of the past two years regarding employment and unemployment rates. Among the unresolved issues in the...
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In this paper the dynamic responses of labor markets to macroeconomic shocks in eight CEE countries are empirically analyzed in panel SVECM. Identification of shocks, interpreted as real wage, productivity, labor demand and supply shocks, is based on DSGE model with labor market explicitly...
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Globalisation has proceeded at an unimagined pace in the last few decades. While it has resulted in high growth of global income, questions are raised about the equity of such growth. Disparity seems to be aggravating, as globalisation seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is...
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The agriculture sector is the predominant employer of the active workforce in Ghana. Among this workforce, women constitute majority which invariable imply their role cannot be overemphasized. This study therefore examines how the socioeconomic characteristics of women affects local economic...
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At present, the world economy is at a cross road. The Nigerian economy is therefore undergoing it most severe economic crisis since the Biafra war of the sixties. Currently, she is experiencing a staggering rate of inflation (well up to the double digit) as well as experiencing a severe...
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