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Are Some Groups More Vulnerable to Business Cycle Shocks than Others? A Regional Analysis of Pakistan’s Labor Market

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  • Mehak Ejaz

    (Department of Economics, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan)

  • Kalim Hyder

    (Monetary Policy Department, State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, Pakistan)

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  • Mehak Ejaz & Kalim Hyder, 2017. "Are Some Groups More Vulnerable to Business Cycle Shocks than Others? A Regional Analysis of Pakistan’s Labor Market," Lahore Journal of Economics, Department of Economics, The Lahore School of Economics, vol. 22(Special E), pages 199-231, September.
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    Keywords

    Business cycle fluctuations; socioeconomic groups; vulnerability; GMM; Pakistan; real earnings; gender;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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