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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …

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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...

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Measuring employment and unemployment : should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?

Brandolini, Andrea; Viviano, Eliana - 2018

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...

Spermann, Alexander - 2016

to more sustainable employment. Adjustments in labor market institutions could make the provision of training more …

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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...

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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided

Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment …

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Effects of entering adulthood during a recession : recent declines in youth employment, net worth, and family formation could permanently affect financial well-being

Dettling, Lisa J. - 2016

Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...

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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies

Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024

unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …

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