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Ours, Jan C. van - 2003

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …

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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis

Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

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Terrorism and Employment : Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Brodeur, Abel - 2015

This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...

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The Political Economy of Inclusive Growth : A Review

Dutzler, Barbara; Johnson, Simon; Muthoora, Priscilla - 2022

In this paper, we review the role of the political economy in inclusive growth. We find that political economy forces on the demand and supply side have weakened redistribution over time and contributed to a new wave of populism. We document growing support for a rethink of the social contract...

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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Faces of joblessness in Australia : an anatomy of employment barriers using household data

Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. 18%...

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