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Measuring Unemployment and Structural Unemployment [PDF]
Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2000 This paper surveys recent research on how to measure labour market activities such as unemployment and labour force participation. The conventional approach to distinguishing between unemployment and non-participation is to use a priori reasoning and self-reported survey responses about current activities, specifically availability for work and job ...
W Craig Riddell
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Unemployment Scarring in High Unemployment Regions [PDF]
Economics Bulletin, 2002 This paper investigates the effect of individual unemployment experiences on re-employment wages. The empirical analysis is carried out on a panel of Italian individuals. The main result is that while in the northern regions the effect is similar to the one estimated for the UK, in the southern area of the country the impact is not significant. We link
LUPI, Claudio, ORDINE P.
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Cyclical Unemployment, Structural Unemployment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Whenever unemployment stays high for an extended period, it is common to see analyses, statements, and rebuttals about the extent to which the high unemployment is structural, not cyclical. This essay views the Beveridge curve pattern of unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching function as proxies for the functioning of the labor market ...
Peter A. Diamond +2 more
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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment [PDF]
Modern Economy, 2010 This paper seeks to provide a simpler explanation of the Match Quality Hypothesis (MQH). For the less mathematically inclined, it avoids formal analysis and yet derives the relevant implications, i.e., if unemployed workers currently collecting unemployment benefits are given more benefits, both the average period of unemployment duration increases as ...
David R. Kamerschen, Willaim Beranek
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Equilibrium unemployment and the duration of unemployment benefits [PDF]
Journal of Population Economics, 2010 This paper uses microdata to evaluate the impact on the steady-state unemployment rate of an increase in maximum benefit duration. We evaluate a policy change in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration and use this policy change to estimate the causal impact of benefit duration on labor market flows.
Lalive, Rafael +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015 The labor market by itself can create cyclical outcomes, even in the absence of exogenous shocks. We propose a theory in which the search behavior of the employed has profound aggregate implications for the unemployed. There is a strategic complementarity between active on-the-job search and vacancy posting by firms, which leads to multiple equilibria:
Jan Eeckhout, Ilse Lindenlaub
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment [PDF]
IZA World of Labor, 2014 All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having to sell their assets or accept jobs below their qualifications.
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Direct Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance [PDF]
, 1977 [Excerpt] With high current interest in unemployment and inflation, policy makers and academicians have begun to reassess the impact of unemployment insurance on the labor market.
Fields, Gary S
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The Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland from 1992 to 2017
Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2019 Two alternative approaches can be found in the literature on the dynamics of unemployment. The first approach is based on the theory of a natural rate of unemployment. Under this theory, the economy can depart from the natural rate of unemployment in the
Andrzej Pisulewski
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