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Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these … trends during the last 15 years. This was accompanied by a substantial decrease in unemployment. New labor force participants …
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unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …
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workers. Since youth unemployment is a pressing problem throughout advanced and developing countries, it is important to … consider the impact of these policies on the employment prospects of the young. …
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women), the resilience of employment during recessions, and the dramatic emergence of very-short-term employment contracts …
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instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …
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instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …
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employment rate among people of working age. Recent increases in employment among older groups contribute favorably to public … finances, but high overall unemployment and a large share of the long-term unemployed are serious concerns. …
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Job polarization can pose serious problems for emerging economies that rely on worker reallocation from low-skilled to middle-skilled jobs to converge toward advanced economies. Evidence from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries shows that structural change and education expansion can...
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, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the …Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country characterized by lax employment protection legislation … unemployment. Most unemployment spells were short, muting the effects on long-term and youth unemployment. Recent reforms boosted …
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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country with lax employment protection legislation, generous … unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. This model has coped with the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic …, avoiding large increases in long-term and structural unemployment. The recovery from Covid-19 alongside re-openings has been …
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