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Unequal distribution of salary from a gender perspective and the impact of recession on the Catalan labor market

Gómez Adillón, M. Jesús; Cabasés Piqué, M. Àngels - 2014

In order to highlight the uneven impact of recession on the labor market in Catalonia (Spain), especially regarding wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective. For ten years prior to recession, female employment...

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Impact of recession on the employment in Catalonia from a gender and age perspective

Cabasés Piqué, Àngels; Adillón, M. Jesús Gómez; … - 2016

In Catalonia, between 2008 and 2014, the rate of youth unemployment has exponentially increased and it has turned into …

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Are small firms more cyclically sensitive than large ones? : national, regional and sectoral evidence from Brazil

Cravo, Túlio - 2010

An important issue facing policymakers is the degree to which fluctuations in economic activity affect employment in large and small businesses across sectors and regions. These issues are particularly relevant for developing countries, as they matter for the understanding of the labour market...

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Are more severe recessions followed by stronger recoveries? : evidence from the Mexican states employment

Mejía Reyes, Pablo; Vergara-González, Reyna - 2015

On the basis of the suggestions of Friedman (1969, 1993) and Moore (1965) and considering the framework proposed by Balke and Wynne (1994, 1995), this paper evaluates whether recoveries growth depends on the characteristics of prior recessions (depth, steepness and duration) in the case of the...

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Productivity in the Spanish regions during the recent economic cycles

Sosvilla-Rivero, Simón - 2011 - Very preliminary version, June 2011

The Spanish regions are facing a severe recession caused by the international financial crisis that has overlapped with the correction that had been recorded in the property market, which has led to a sharp drop in economic activity and a rapid destruction process employment. In these...

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The EITC over the great recession : who benefited?

Jones, Maggie R. - In: National tax journal 70 (2017) 4, pp. 709-736

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Fighting persistent regional unemployment : the Paltamo Full Employment experiment

Hämäläinen, Kari; Hamalainen, Ulla - 2012

persistent unemployment in contracting regions. The basic idea behind the experiment is to collect all unemployment related … lower the unemployment rate in Paltamo by almost 10 percentage points in just two years time during an era of global … financial crisis. The costs of this remarkable drop in unemployment were 3.4 million Euros in 2010. The results show that one …

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An analysis of Okun's law for the Spanish provinces

Cháfer Melguizo, Celia - 2015

The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), commonly known as Okun?s law, has been … on unemployment is a particular feature of the Spanish economy. During the current economic downturn unemployment rate … unemployment rates from 20 percent of the labour force to levels slightly above the European average. The analysis of the …

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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 162-176

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Downskilling : changes in employer skill requirements over the business cycle

Sasser, Alicia; Shoag, Daniel W.; Ballance, Joshua - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 41 (2016), pp. 333-347

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