He was just a naughty boy
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in entrepreneurship, human capital, occupational choice
The calendar effect: changing number of public holidays falling in the working week measures the upper bound of the lockdown on GDP?
03 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economic growth, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, macroeconomics Tags: economics of pandemics
Daily US labour supply #COVID19
01 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, unemployment
Source: Homebase at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTf0Ce37p3B0Qy-5BZPh1p9-WwEekPOxVdpMsumy6JFeCIt9EO6ZxbGNpnNxjdf9Mr9USeIMqjq9YU0/pubhtml#
Finn Kyland on Ireland
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, comparative institutional analysis, economic growth, economics of regulation, financial economics, macroeconomics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment
The 1931 massive fiscal contraction should have slowed the NZ recovery if Keynesian macroeconomics is worth more than a grain of salt
31 Mar 2020 7 Comments
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetary economics, public economics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, new classical macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, New Zealand
100 years on New Zealand unemployment rates
31 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in business cycles, economic history, great depression, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics, New Zealand
Novak and Davidson on interwar unemployment
31 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Keynesian macroeconomics, New Keynesian macroeconomics
A century of Australian unemployment rates
30 Mar 2020 1 Comment
in business cycles, economic history, great depression, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Australia
From https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/previousproducts/1301.0feature%20article142001
The unemployment rate then increased rapidly to 19.3% in 1930, before reaching a peak of 29.0% in 1932, in response to the economic conditions of the Great Depression. This unprecedented high rate of unemployment persisted for two years, before the unemployment rate fell rapidly to below 10% by 1937.
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