To What Extent do Labor Market Outcomes respond to UI Extensions? [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Unemployment benefits in the US were extended by up to 73 weeks during the Great Recession. Equilibrium labor market theory indicates that extensions of benefit duration impact not only search decisions by job seekers but also job vacancy creations by employers.
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa [PDF]
, 2000 High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete ...
Klasen, S., Woolard, I.
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Unemployment and remittances nexus in Ghana: The gender perspective
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023 The present study aims at investigating the nexus between unemployment and remittances in Ghana, with a focus on the gender perspective. Using time-series data spanning from 1990 to 2021, the ARDL model is estimated.
Mohammed Ridwan Saani +2 more
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Responses of Unemployment to Productivity Changes for a General Matching Technology [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Workers separate from jobs, search for jobs, accept jobs, and fund consumption with their wages. Firms recruit workers to fill vacancies. Search frictions prevent firms from instantly hiring available workers. Unemployment persists. These features are described by the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides modeling framework.
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Involuntary unemployment in overlapping generations model due to instability of the economy [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The existence of involuntary unemployment advocated by J. M. Keynes is a very important problem of the modern economic theory. Using a three-generations overlapping generations model, we show that the existence of involuntary unemployment is due to the instability of the economy.
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The Effects of Structural Adjustment on Youth Unemployment in Egypt [PDF]
, 2005 The persistence of high unemployment rates in recent years has become a major problem in many MENA countries, especially in Egypt. The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of economic reforms in Egypt on youth unemployment.
El-Hamidi, Fatma, Wahba, Jackline
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Classification of Recurring Unemployed Workers and Unemployment Exits [PDF]
European Journal of Economics and Social Systems Vol 14, number 1
(2000) 59-68, 2007 This study focuses on recurring unemployment, that is people with two or more spells of unemployment during the period of observation (July 1993 - August 1996). First, a classification is obtained which is then used to examine the specific role of occasional jobs during a spell of unemployment and, in this context, the influence of the received ...
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Labor market in Serbia: 1990-2005 [PDF]
Sociološki Pregled, 2006 Key problems in transitions in Serbia can be analyzed through the processes happening at the labor market. Labor market in Serbia is divided on the formal and informal one ("gray"). The basic problem is mass unemployment.
Stojanović Božo
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Duration and Risk of Unemployment in Argentina [PDF]
, 2001 After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution.
Galiani, Sebastian, Hopenhayn, Hugo A.
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The Relationship between the Economic and Financial Crises and Unemployment Rate in the European Union -- How Institutions Affected Their Linkage [PDF]
Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics, Vol.
2019, Article ID 403548, 2020 This paper aims to estimate the impact of economic and financial crises on the unemployment rate in the European Union, taking also into consideration the institutional specificities, since unemployment was the main channel through which the economic and financial crisis influenced the social developments..
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