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Evaluation of Subsidized Employment Programs for Long-Term Unemployed in Bulgaria

Mihaylov, Emil - In: Economic Studies journal (2011) 3, pp. 136-167

Bulgaria’s transition to a market economy has been remarkably slow and painful. Difficulties that can affect the labor markets of transition economies have all occurred in Bulgaria. Sharp declines in employment, high unemployment, low turnover among the unemployed and increasing long-term...

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Cost-Effectiveness of Targeted Reemployment Bonuses

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Decker, Paul T.; Wandner, … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It

Smith, Ralph E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...

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Structural Reforms to Reduce Unemployment and Restore Competitiveness in Ireland

Pina, Álvaro - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

After a recession of historic proportions, an export-led recovery is gaining traction in Ireland. The pace of recovery, however, varies sharply across sectors. While export-oriented manufacturing and services, led by large multinationals, have reached record-high levels of output,...

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Young People at the Labour Market and Their Social Protection

Loukanova, Pobeda - In: Economic Thought journal (2011) 7, pp. 139-156

This paper presents youth’s situation at the labour market in Bulgaria and existing opportunities for transition to employment. The attention is focussed on increased vulnerability of youth employment in the current period of the crisis and the specific problems faced by young people. From...

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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland

Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Maintaining high participation and employment in the face of the recent recession and a rapidly ageing population are major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long–lasting scars on labour markets, while rapid ageing...

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The Effects of Active Labor Market Programs in Germany: An Investigation Using Different Definitions of Non-Treatment

Stephan, Gesine - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 586-611

This paper estimates the effects of several German labor market programs – starting in March 2003 – on the employment outcomes of participants using propensity score matching. The main objective is to analyze how estimated average treatment effects vary with the choice of the classification...

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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs - The East German Experience.

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick; Steiner, Viktor - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 216-248

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...

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Unemployment Duration in Germany: Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment

Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 1, pp. 43-61

. A. Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland: Individuelle und regionale Determinanten der lokalen Arbeitssuche …, Migration und subventionierten Beschaftigung, Regional Studies. Die jungsten Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland zielen unter … anderem darauf ab, die Arbeitslosigkeit durch Einschrankung passiver Arbeitslosigkeitsmassnahmen, Betonung lokaler …

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"Labor Turnover and Labor Legislation in Brazil"

Gonzaga, Gustavo - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2003)

One of the main characteristics of the Brazilian labor market is its impressively high job and worker turnover rates. Although labor legislation in Brazil is very restrictive, dismissal costs are not high when compared with other Latin American countries. Moreover, many authors argue that the...

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