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Employment, late-life work, retirement, and well-being in Europe and the United States

Nikolova, Milena; Graham, Carol - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 5, pp. 1-30

Flexible work arrangements and retirement options provide one solution for the challenges of unemployment and …

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Gender unemployment gaps in the EU : blame the family

Bičáková, Alena - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-26

There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 … countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is … permanently withdraw from the labor force after childbirth, the size of gender differences in unemployment strongly correlates …

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Female labour market participation in Europe : novel evidence on trends and shaping factors

Cipollone, Angela; Patacchini, Eleonora; Vallanti, Giovanna - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 18, pp. 1-40

characteristics. Our estimates reveal a role of policies and institutions that is stronger than what has so far been assessed. Labour … market institutions and family-oriented policies explain almost 25% of the actual increase in labour force participation for …

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Old-age employment and hours of work trends : empirical analysis for four European countries

Aliaj, Arjeta; Flawinne, Xavier; Jousten, Alain; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-22

For the last two decades, the increase of employment among individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper focuses on the case of Belgium, France, Germany, and The Netherlands over the period 1997–2011. First, we provide descriptive...

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Labour force participation elasticities and the move away from a flat tax : the case of Slovakia

Senaj, Matus; Siebertova, Zuzana; Svarda, Norbert; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-26

This paper provides a microeconometric analysis of labour force participation elasticities in Slovakia where we study the elasticity with respect to a unique tax reform whereby the flat tax was backtracked and replaced by a progressive tax. By estimating a probability model for labour force...

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Wage inequality, skill inequality, and employment : evidence and policy lessons from PIAAC

Jovicic, Sonja - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-26

distribution is associated with high unemployment across core OECD countries. Wage dispersion and wage structure are widely debated … among policymakers; compressed wage structure is often perceived as an important cause of high unemployment. Firstly, this … countries have a more compressed wage structure, most likely caused by labor market institutions. We do not find an effect of …

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Local institutional quality and economic growth : a panel-VAR analysis of Italian NUTS-3 regions

Corradini, Carlo - In: Economics letters 198 (2021), pp. 1-4

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Institutions and growth : a GMM/IV Panel VAR approach

Góes, Carlos - In: Economics letters 138 (2016), pp. 85-91

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The German labor market after the Great Recession : successful reforms and future challenges

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...

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Unemployment and labour-force participation in Sweden

Österholm, Pär - In: Economics letters 106 (2010) 3, pp. 205-208

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