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Labour market policies, strategies and statistics for people with disabilities : a cross-national comparison
Bergeskog, Anders - 2001
countries provided sufficient information for a thorough cross-national comparison which among other things includes detailed … disability pension recipients. Despite similar labour force participation figures in Great Britain, Australia, Finland, Norway … recipients and the proportion of programme participants are limited in Australia and the United Kingdom, while both proportions …
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428334
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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
Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456169
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Training and Wages of Older Workers in Europe
Belloni, Michele - 2014
The financial deficits of many social security systems caused by ageing populations and stagnating economies are forcing workers to retire later from the labour market. An extended working life combined with rapid technological progress in many sectors, is likely making older workers' skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040125
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Relative advantages : casual employment and casualisation in Australia and New Zealand
Campbell, Iain (contributor); Brosnan, Peter (contributor) - In: New Zealand journal of employment relations 30 (2005) 3, pp. 1-13
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Sustaining employment of older workers in an ageing socienty
Biffl, Gudrun; Isaac, Joseph Ezra - 2005
older workers. These issues are analysed in a comparative study of Austria and Australia. Both countries face global … social partnership is well entrenched, in Australia managerial prerogatives have strengthened in the context of greatly …
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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Die Aktivierung erwerbsfähiger Hilfeempfänger : Programme, Teilnehmer, Effekte im internationalen Vergleich
Fromm, Sabine (contributor); Sproß, Cornelia (contributor) - 2008
Die Einführung einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik ist das zentrale Merkmal der Reform moderner Wohlfahrtsstaaten seit den 1990er Jahren. Ein wesentliches Element dieser Politik ist die Implementierung von Aktivierungsmaßnahmen für erwerbsfähige Hilfeempfänger, die heute in den meisten...
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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