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Okun's Law, Development, and Demographics: Differences in the Cyclical Sensitivities of Unemployment Across Economy and Worker Groups

Author/Editor: Zidong An, John C Bluedorn, Gabriele Ciminelli.

Release Date:November, 2021

The negative and stable relationship between an economy's aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the more...



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On the Substitution of Private and Public Capital in Production

Author/Editor: Zidong An, Alvar Kangur, Chris Papageorgiou.

Release Date:November, 2019

Most macroeconomic models assume that aggregate output is generated by a specification for the production function with total physical capital as a key input. Implicitly this assumes that private and more...



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Work In Progress : Improving Youth Labor Market Outcomes in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Author/Editor: JaeBin Ahn, Zidong An, John C Bluedorn, Gabriele Ciminelli, Zsoka Koczan, Davide Malacrino, Daniela Muhaj, Patricia Neidlinger.

Release Date:January, 2019

Economic development and growth depend on a country’s young people. With most of their working life ahead of them they make up about a third of the working-age population in the typical emerging more...



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How Well Do Economists Forecast Recessions?

Author/Editor: Zidong An, João Tovar Jalles, Prakash Loungani.

Release Date:March, 2018

We describe the evolution of forecasts in the run-up to recessions. The GDP forecasts cover 63 countries for the years 1992 to 2014. The main finding is that, while forecasters are generally aware more...



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Growth and Jobs in Developing Economies: Trends and Cycles

Author/Editor: Zidong An, Tayeb Ghazi, Nathalie Gonzalez Prieto, Aomar Ibourk.

Release Date:November, 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and job creation in developing economies with a focus on low and lower middle-income countries along two dimensions: growth patterns more...



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