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. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part … markets. Less robust evidence suggests the presence of unemployment traps for some potential part-time workers. Cross …
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unemployment and decrease old age unemployment. However, once we take the wage response into account, we find that firing costs … increase both youth and old age unemployment. This happens because unions react strategically, and respond to higher firing … increase their employment prospects. However, despite this cut youth unemployment still increases with firing costs. In the …
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average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does … somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. …
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This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young (16-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and old (more than 49 years) workers and their expected...
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for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our … endogeneity of attitudes, policies and institutions, and by allowing for the persistent nature of labor market outcomes. When we … policy variables that play a role, along with attitudes, are the tax wedge and unemployment benefits. The quantitative impact …
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