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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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Mixed economy of welfare emerging in Poland : outplacement and non-governmental employment agencies examples
Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2015
One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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From unemployment to self-employment : the role of entrepreneurship training
Michaelides, Marios; Davis, Scott - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/18, pp. 1-35
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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland : das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by descriptive statistical methods. The existing literature in political economy and political science mainly relies on interviews and survey results as well as on qualitative analyses...
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Terrorism and Employment : Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks
Brodeur, Abel - 2015
This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...
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The Political Economy of Inclusive Growth : A Review
Dutzler, Barbara; Johnson, Simon; Muthoora, Priscilla - 2022
In this paper, we review the role of the political economy in inclusive growth. We find that political economy forces on the demand and supply side have weakened redistribution over time and contributed to a new wave of populism. We document growing support for a rethink of the social contract...
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
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