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Strikes in France and the Netherlands : a comparison of labour market institutions

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Koppes, Silvie Y. - 2003

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than …

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes so that our identification is not affected by the Faust...

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What goes up sometimes stays up : shocks and institutions as determinants of unemployment persistence

Amisano, Gianni; Serati, Massimiliano - 2002

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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010

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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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The crisis sensitivity of European countries and regions : stylized facts and spatial heterogeneity

Groot, Stefan P. T.; Möhlmann, Jan L.; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...

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Complex network phenomena in telecommunication systems

Schintler, Laurie A. (contributor) - 2004

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