P olicymakers who are concerned with understanding the cyclical state of the economy will be interested in identifying the sustainable rate of employment growth. If productivity growth is taken to be exogenous, the rate at which jobs are created will determine growth in output. Assuming that employment is measured reasonably well, a policymaker armed with a measure of trend job growth will be a...

This paper compares hiring and separations over the business cycle in formal and informal labor markets in Brazil. Using a simple model with specificity in employment relationships, the paper shows that the consequences of employment protection can be described by an inverse relationship between the incidence and duration of employment. Employment protection moves labor markets along this curve...

The last wave of EU enlargement ended on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. Many countries of the South-Eastern Europe aspire to join the EU. Croatia appears to be the next prospective member, so the aim of this paper was to classify Croatia and EU 27 Member States according to the structural economic indicators. These countries were gathered into homogenous groups in te...

In this study, it analyzes the dynamics of employment in Indonesia before and during Covid-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on all sectors, especially sector Indonesia. This study used variables open unemployment rate, opportunity, dependency ratio economic growth. dynamic analysis with vector error correction model (VECM) method research year 1987-2021. results explain that GDP...

In this paper, we extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate the model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the private and public sectors, and on the distributions of wages, productivities and educa...

iranian women's economic participation rate is similar to undeveloped countries, while their educational achievements can be compared with developed countries. the aim of this article is to discuss some of the factors related to the situation. according to the policies of third development plan, the rate of employment in government sector should decline and the opportunities for new employ...

The impacts of the real exchange rate on employment and its channels are investigated. A real appreciation, 1) by decreasing the cost of imported inputs and increasing real wages expressed in tradable goods (technological channel), 2) by decreasing exports (export volume channel), 3) by exerting pressure on efficiency improvement (efficiency channel), exerts a negative effect on employment. Usi...

This article considers the international diffusion of business cycle on the basis of a rigorous dynamic microeconomic foundation. The seminal work of Laursen and Metzler (1950) suggests that the employment-isolation effect under the flexible exchange rate system is imperfect even if international capital mobility is completely prohibited. Assuming a small country model instead of the two countr...

The paper analyzes the effect of economic incentives in the AFDC program on the employment of AFDC mothers. Multiple regression analysis is applied to cross-sectional aggregate state program data for 1967. Our estimates indicate that the level of guarantees, tax rates and set-asides affect AFDC employment rates in the direction predicted by economic theory. Short of a drastic reduction in guara...