Saturday, May 3, 2025
On cross-country:
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On Australia and New Zealand:
On other countries:
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Posted by 5:00 AM
atLabels: Global Housing Watch
Friday, May 2, 2025
From a paper by Raúl Ramos Lobo, Esteve Sanromà, and Runhan Ye:
“Reducing unemployment is still a priority for many governments. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether labour market reforms have succeeded in lowering the level of output growth required to reduce unemployment. With this aim, we estimate time-varying thresholds based on a first-difference version of Okun’s law for 25 countries and, then we analyse whether 32 labour reforms have contributed to reducing thresholds. The results show a high heterogeneity of thresholds among countries, but also that thresholds have shown a clear decreasing trend, mainly due to the evolution of the labour force and productivity in these countries. We also find that in 21 of the 32 considered labour market reforms, they have been effective in reducing the value of the threshold. Both results are clearly relevant from a policy perspective.”
From a paper by Raúl Ramos Lobo, Esteve Sanromà, and Runhan Ye:
“Reducing unemployment is still a priority for many governments. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether labour market reforms have succeeded in lowering the level of output growth required to reduce unemployment. With this aim, we estimate time-varying thresholds based on a first-difference version of Okun’s law for 25 countries and, then we analyse whether 32 labour reforms have contributed to reducing thresholds.
Posted by 8:46 AM
atLabels: Inclusive Growth
From a paper by Richard Schmitz, Franziska Flachsbarth, Leonie Sara Plaga, Martin Braun, and Philipp Härtel:
“Recent events, including the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and climate
change impacts, have exposed the critical need to ensure energy security and resilience in energy
systems. We review existing definitions and interrelations between energy security and resilience,
conceptualising these terms in the context of energy system transformations. We introduce a classification of disturbances into shock events and slow burn processes to highlight key challenges to energy system resilience. Examples illustrate their distinct impacts on technical, economic, and environmental system performance over time. We compile relevant recourse options across resilience capacity levels and system planning horizons to address these challenges, emphasising actionable strategies for an increasingly integrated energy system. Finally, we propose policy recommendations to integrate shock events and slow burn processes into future energy system planning, enabling forward-looking decision-making and system design to analyse and mitigate potential disruptions.”
From a paper by Richard Schmitz, Franziska Flachsbarth, Leonie Sara Plaga, Martin Braun, and Philipp Härtel:
“Recent events, including the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and climate
change impacts, have exposed the critical need to ensure energy security and resilience in energy
systems. We review existing definitions and interrelations between energy security and resilience,
conceptualising these terms in the context of energy system transformations. We introduce a classification of disturbances into shock events and slow burn processes to highlight key challenges to energy system resilience.
Posted by 8:44 AM
atLabels: Energy & Climate Change
From a paper by Loek Groot and Chintani Sooriyamudali:
“This paper estimates the global Kuznets curve (2005-2020) by plotting global mean income against global inequality, while exploring COVID-19’s impact on inequality. Using PPP adjusted GDP per capita and Gini index data from 122 countries (94% global GDP, 88% population), global income is simulated assuming lognormality. The paper finds that, at the pandemic outbreak, the world was on the downward part of the Kuznets curve. Compared to within-country inequality, between country inequality contributes significantly to global inequality. While the pandemic may temporarily decelerate the decline of global inequality, the long-term impact will be determined by the level of international cooperation in the global response to the pandemic.”
From a paper by Loek Groot and Chintani Sooriyamudali:
“This paper estimates the global Kuznets curve (2005-2020) by plotting global mean income against global inequality, while exploring COVID-19’s impact on inequality. Using PPP adjusted GDP per capita and Gini index data from 122 countries (94% global GDP, 88% population), global income is simulated assuming lognormality. The paper finds that, at the pandemic outbreak, the world was on the downward part of the Kuznets curve.
Posted by 8:41 AM
atLabels: Inclusive Growth
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atLabels: Global Housing Watch
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