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Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer
November 7, 2011 12:00am PST
"We have a very long haul here. It's not going to feel like a strong economy." Those words, from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, are certainly not welcomed by chief sales officers. With...
Provided by: Oracle
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Unemployment In Latin America And The Caribbean
August 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. The authors compare different countries, finding...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Constraints On Leadership In Washington
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
It is commonplace today to assert that American politics and governance are dysfunctional. In many respects, the received wisdom is correct. The authors survived the most severe financial crisis...
Provided by: Brookings Institution
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Prospective Analysis Of A Wage Subsidy For Cape Town Youth
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, the authors estimate a structural...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Immigration, Unemployment And Growth In The Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis On OECD Countries
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. The authors employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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The NRU And The Evolution Of Regional Disparities In Spanish Unemployment
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Who Do High-growth Firms Employ, And Who Do They Hire?
June 26, 2011 12:00am PDT
The purpose of this paper is to study who High-Growth Firms (HGFs) hire using a matched employer-employee dataset for all knowledge intensive industries in Sweden, where high growth is measured...
Provided by: University of Sussex
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Financing Constraints And Unemployment: Evidence From The Great Recession
June 15, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper exploits the differential financing needs across industrial sectors and provides strong empirical evidence that financing constraints of small businesses in the United States are...
Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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Financing Labor
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Financial market imperfections can have significant impact on employment decisions of firms. The authors illustrate the economic importance of this channel by demonstrating that the responsiveness...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Animal Spirits, Rational Bubbles And Unemployment In An Old-Keynesian Model
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a model of the macroeconomy in which any unemployment rate may be steady-state equilibrium and every equilibrium unemployment rate is associated with a different value for the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Lifecycle Impacts Of The Financial And Economic Crisis On Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, And Labor Supply
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The direct financial impact of the financial crisis has been to deal a heavy blow to investment-based pensions; many workers lost a substantial portion of their retirement saving. The financial...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Growth, Unemployment And Wage Inertia
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors introduce wage setting via efficiency wages in the neoclassical one-sector growth model to study the growth effects of wage inertia. They compare the dynamic equilibrium of an economy...
Provided by: Universitat de Barcelona
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Clashing Theories Of Unemployment
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
General-equilibrium models for studying monetary influences in general and the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate in particular contain implicit theories of unemployment. In some cases,...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With The Unemployment Rate? Theory And Evidence
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors study how the level of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with the moral hazard cost of distorting job search behavior varies over...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Short-time Work: The German Answer To The Great Recession
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Short-time work was the "German answer" to the economic crisis. The number of short-time workers strongly increased in the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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A Steady-state Model Of A Non-Walrasian Economy With Three Imperfect Markets
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper addresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Taxes And The Labor Market
May 16, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors estimate the effect of exogenous changes in taxes on the US unemployment rate and on several other labor market variables. The estimates are based on a revised version of the Romer and...
Provided by: Central Bank of Chile
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Regulation, Enforcement And Informality: An Analysis Based On Selected Countries
May 10, 2011 12:00am PDT
The informal economy has been occupying a key position in the development-discourse ever since it was 'Discovered' in the Ghana in the second half of the 20th century. A good deal of literature...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Immigration And Growth In An Ageing Economy
May 9, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. The authors develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with...
Provided by: United Nations University
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Unemployment In An Estimated New Keynesian Model
May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors reformulate the Smets-Wouters (2007) framework by embedding the theory of unemployment proposed in Galí (2011a, b). They estimate the resulting model using postwar U.S. data, while...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
