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Who are the unemployed?
(1990)
Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected developed countries
(1990)
This paper studies the effect of the business cycle on poverty, drawing evidence from the United States, Great Britain, Sweden and Australia. Many of the poor in those countries are outside the labour market and for those ...
Optimum policies with unemployment and international capital mobility
(1990)
We construct a small open economy model characterized by unemployment, diminishing returns to scale in production, and free international captial mobility. When a sub-optimum labor subsidy exists, the optimal policy is a ...
Dynamic specification and household characteristics
(Institute for Fiscal Studies Discussion Paper,W91/11, 1990)
Labour market policies and unemployment in the OECD
(1990)
The massive increase in unemployment throughout the OECD since the early 1970s has led governments in many countries to introduce, or to expand, labour market policies. Such programmes have the objective of reducing ...
Relative Wage Flexibility in Four Countries,
(University Press, 1990)