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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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Current situation and future trends of the industrial relations system and trade unions in Greece
Nikolopoulos, Andreas; Patra, Eleni - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 353-368
The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...
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Employment protection : policymakers need to find the right balance between protecting workers and promoting efficient resource allocation and productivity growth
Scarpetta, Stefano - 2014
Laws on hiring and firing are intended to protect workers from unfair behavior by employers, to counter imperfections in financial markets that limit workers' ability to insure themselves against job loss, and to preserve firm-specific human capital. But by imposing costs on firms' adaptation to...
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A note on Industrial Relations Code, 2020
Roy, Gopal Krishna; Dubey, Amaresh - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 65 (2022) 2, pp. 533-543
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric …-in-differences event study research design that exploits cross-state variation in licensing laws to compare the unemployment rate between …, we find that licensing shields workers from a recession-induced increase in the unemployment rate of 0.82 p.p. during …
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The Demand for Individual Grievance Procedures in Germany and Spain: Labour Law Changes versus Business Cycle/La demanda de reclamaciones laborales individuales en Alemania y Españ...
FRICK, BERND; MALO, MIGUEL A.; GARCIA MARTINEZ, PILAR; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 30 (2012) Abril, pp. 283-310
17 autonomous regions of Spain (1987-2006) show that labour market characteristics, such as the unemployment and the … “workers’ rights”. Thus, the individual costs of unemployment are better predictors of the demand for individual grievance …
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Labor courts, nomination bias, and unemployment in Germany
Berger, Helge; Neugart, Michael - In: European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2011) 4, pp. 659-673
activity and unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. …
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Addressing Labour Market Duality in Korea
Grubb, David - 2007
The Korean labor market has created many jobs over the past several decades, accompanying rapid economic growth. More recently, this favorable job performance has gone hand-in-hand with a rapid increase of temporary employment and other flexible or atypical work arrangements (usually called...
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Portugal: Rebalancing the Economy and Returning to Growth Through Job Creation and Better Capital Allocation
Pina, Álvaro; Abreu, Ildeberta - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
increasing targeted training. Reforms in wage setting, labour taxation, unemployment benefits and activation policies will foster … job creation, thus enhancing output growth while avoiding high unemployment becoming entrenched and threatening social …
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Matching Skills and Jobs in Estonia
Demmou, Lilas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
The labour market in Estonia is volatile, increasing the risk that groups with some obstacles to enter the labour market (youth, non-Estonian speakers and workers with no upper secondary graduation certificate) may become long-term unemployed, due to the aggravating skills mismatch in the wake...
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