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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"unemployment rates"”.
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An empirical analysis of employment stability, wages and unemployment rates of Japanese labor markets
… by measuring historical five-year retention rates for male regular workers grouped by education level and firm size. It was found that the overall retention rates began to decrease at the current recession after the long period of stability. Owing to the law prohibiting the mandatory …
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THREE ESSAYS ON RETURNS TO EDUCATION, HEALTH AND THE SPATIAL WAGE CURVE IN TURKEY
… are more responsive to the adjacent regions’ unemployment rates than the local unemployment rates. Further investigation reveals that the wage curve estimates are sensitive to the use of group-specific regional unemployment rates.</p>
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An Analysis of Economic Variables Affecting Enrollments in the South Carolina Technical College System and Virginia Community College System
<p>The idea that high unemployment rates give rise to higher enrollments for community colleges is widely accepted (Sundberg, 1998). However, according to Betts and McFarland (1995), not much is known empirically about the role that economic factors play in determining two-year college enrollment. …
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Investment in human capital and the nonwhite-white unemployment differential
… is a study of the differential incidence of unemployment between white and nonwhite male workers in the U.S. labor force. The general question to which this study addresses itself is to what extent can the higher incidence of nonwhite compared to white unemployment at a point in time and over …
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Time in the “Great Recession”: the impact of the Great recession and being unemployed on time spent in healthy behaviors and with family members.
… with poor economic conditions (i.e. higher unemployment rates) is related to lower odds of having a sleepless episode but increases the odds of a sleep disruption; and those interviewed during the recession are more likely to sleep more than 9 hours, report sleeplessness, and less likely to …
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Selected Local Labour Market Outcomes in New Zealand
… The relationship between homeownership and unemployment is the second aspect considered. Particularly, Oswald has argued that disparities in unemployment rates maybe attributable to differences in homeownership rates, higher homeownership rates being associated with higher unemployment …
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An empirical examination of factors that influence venture capital investment and the location of funds
… in venture capital include capital pins tax rates, stock market pricing, risk premiums, and regulations on pension fund investment. Further, this thesis examines whether the location of venture capital funds depends on research and development funds at universities within a state, state …
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Transport policy reform and rural communities : a case study of Gaspé
… the out-migration of youth, seasonal work, high-unemployment rates, and problems attracting and retaining business and industry. Furthermore, it has three modes of transport: air, rail and maritime, making Gaspe a unique case study in Canada. This study examines community attitudes to the recent …
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Unemployment, Economic Activity and Crime Rates: A Reexamination From an Opportunity Perspective
… that accounts for the relationship between unemployment rates and crime rates. The model proposed here argues that when predicting the sign of the unemployment rate two direct and opposing effects must be considered. First, decreases in macro economic activity, as indicated by an increase in …
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Human capital, economic growth, and income distribution: Three essays on human capital
… in human capital in terms of college enrollment rates is positively related to family income, rate of return to human capital, and unemployment rates, while it is negatively related to educational cost, and rate of return to physical capital. In addition, the average income tax rates show a …
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Disability employment support services: a case study on transition to formal employment for persons with disabilities in South Africa
General unemployment rates are high in South Africa, but unemployment rates for persons with disabilities in the open labour market are still considerably higher than those of able-bodied persons. Research has identified a number of barriers which hinder the full inclusion of persons with …
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Essays in macroeconomics and unemployment
… would explain 54 percent of the increase in U.S. unemployment during the Great Recession, as opposed to 27 percent suggested by the standard DSGE models without on-the-job search. The second chapter uses Bayesian methods to estimate a search and matching model that permits job rationing featuring …
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A bayesian hierarchical modelling of small area variation in youth unemployment in Namibia
Youth unemployment has been one of Namibia's socio-economic problems, which has the potential to have significant and serious social repercussions on economic growth and development and could cause social exclusion and unrest in the affected country. Youth unemployment rates estimates are only …
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Far-Right Extremism in America: A Geospatial Analysis of Incident Distribution
… groups, higher immigrant populations, higher unemployment rates, higher education levels and higher urbanicity in counties all indicate an increased likelihood a violent extremist far-right incident will take place.</p>
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Neighborhood social environments and the distribution of low-birthweight in Chicago
… in pregnancy. Ordinarily, social inequalities in rates of low birthweight (LBW) are discussed in terms of risk factors for these conditions, such as race, income, education, or prenatal care use, which largely focus on individual behaviors and circumstances to explain inequalities in maternal …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
… is apparent that there are no effects of RAPs on unemployment rates in treatment counties – however, there seems to be a slight positive effect on employment-to-population ratios and labor force participation rates. This paper finds that the RAP in 22 counties (by proxy, tribes) studied do not …
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Changes in inequality in South Africa : the effect of human capital on inequality using decomposition techniques
… designed to be used in labour markets with high unemployment rates, and incorporates analysis of labour market effects and earnings into one unified approach, which is unusual in the literature on earnings inequality.
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Doctorate unemployment as rent-seeking behavior
… provides an economic explanation for Ph.D. unemployment. The discussion begins with a theoretical investigation of policy making in nonprofit colleges. The predictions of this analysis are that colleges will operate less efficiently than for-profit firms; that faculty salaries will exceed …
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An intervention study to investigate development centres as an avenue to improve the self-efficacy of university graduates
… To reach employability, graduates face high unemployment rates, inequality, a slow growing economy, high employer expectations, and a skills mismatch, all of which impacts their self-efficacy, performance and motivation levels. The sample population for this research included Industrial …
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Extreme Politics: An Analysis of the State Level Conditions Favoring Far Right Parties in the European Union
… of the number of the parties, immigration, and unemployment on support for the far right in Europe. Empirical tests, using a random effects model of fifty elections in eight nations, suggest that there are political, social, and economic conditions that are conducive to electoral success. …
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