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Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast.
Published 2004“…Unemployment in South Africa is so widespread that it demands an explanation. …”
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A rational inattention unemployment trap
Published 2021“…We show that introducing rational inattention into a model with uninsurable unemployment risk can generate multiple steady states, when the model with full information has a unique steady state. …”
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Unemployment persistence: theoretical and empirical developments
Published 2011“…Unemployment persistence is defined as the existence of serial correlation in individual employment outcomes.…”
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Keeping up with the Joneses and unemployment risk
Published 2001“…If individuals have uncertain lifetimes, a higher mortality rate reduces the marginal propensity to consume out of wealth, and raises the ratio of marginal utilities between employment and unemployment.…”
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How High Is Urban Unemployment in China?
Published 2006“…The accuracy of official statistics is liable to come into question. Urban unemployment in China is a good example. This paper estimates the urban unemployment rate using administrative statistics, population census data and a recent sample survey data set, and provides a critique showing in some detail how and why Chinese unemployment statistics are a minefield for the unwary and unemployment is so difficult to measure. …”
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Involuntary Unemployment in Dynamic Contract Equilibria.
Published 1986“…Second, we show that unobservable effort can lead to voluntary unemployment.…”
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Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa.
Published 2004“…South Africa's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications. …”
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Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
Published 2005“…Seeks to explain long-term shifts in the level of unemployment, why unemployment within countries has been higher in some decades than in others, why certain countries have had higher unemployment than others, and why in some countries unemployment has remained high for very long periods. …”
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A congestion theory of unemployment fluctuations
Published 2020“…In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that the number of unemployed workers finding jobs expands. …”
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