- Education and Unemployment in Israel,
1976-1994.
Reducing the Anomaly In industrialized economies, unemployment rates are inversely related to education levels. Data from 1963 to 1994 show that Israel is an anomaly exhibiting an inverted U-shaped relationship. Workers with 9--12 years of schooling consistently experienced a higher level of unemployment than the schooling groups with less and ......
- Uncertainty deters private investment in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
The accords signed by Israel and the PLO in 1993 and 1994 heralded greater prosperity for Palestinians. But an adverse external trade environment has discouraged private investment, and economic conditions have deteriorated. In September 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Governing ......
- ALGERIA - The Challenges Of
Terrorism.
Editor's Note: This is a new survey of Middle East/North African (MENA) countries being serialised through SBME volumes 49-52 in 2005 and 2006. The countries, to include Iran and Israel, will be presented in alphabetical order, starting with Algeria: Part 1 - Algeria: In most of the MENA countries, the ......
- Household survey indicators show some improvement in 2004
HEADNOTE Fewer workers were unemployed in 2004 and employment rose over the year; however, Current Population Survey data indicate that the labor market recovery since the 2001 recession has differed from recoveries in other postrecession periods Unemployment declined, and employment, as measured by the Current Population Survey (CPS), rose in ......
- Lower unemployment in 2005
Unemployment continued to decline and employment, as measured by the Current Population Survey (CPS), rose in 2005. The unemployment rate continued the downward trend that began in 2003, declining to 5.0 percent by the fourth quarter of 2005. The employment-population ratio increased during the year, while the labor force participation ......
- Nationwide unemployment rate remains at 5.2 percent
Employment rose in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.2 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 274,000 over the month. Job growth was widespread, with gains in construction, mining, and several service-providing industries. Unemployment (Household Survey ......
- Mapping the new political risk
HEADNOTE The map of political risk has taken on a changing form over the past twenty years. Along with new breeds of risk comes intensified concern over how it is handled. In a survey by the World Bank two years ago, approximately half of the investors said that political risk ......