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The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
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Employment fosters equity and economic inclusiveness because those out of work face the highest risk of poverty, and it … lower hurdles to employment, which are high for the low-skilled. Policies to speed up tertiary graduation, improve work … incentives and activation of the unemployed and postpone labour market exit are necessary to bring the employment rate closer to …
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Macro-simulations benchmarking employment in Finland to the Nordic average show that closing the large gaps in labour … participation vis-à-vis the other Nordics across genders and age groups would boost employment significantly. Regressions on micro … explain some of the observed differences in labour market outcomes across age and gender. Low employment in the oldest Finnish …
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We develop a dynamic microsimulation model to project the labor force and economic dependency ratios in the United States from 2022 to 2060, taking population projections and the large inequalities between population groups of different race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy...
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The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria needs to provide more support for families and...
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the cross country and time variation in employment protection legislation and minimum retirement age to study whether … policies that have increased minimum retirement age and reduced the strictness of employment protection legislation have raised …
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This paper examines the implications of labour force growth in one region for wages, employment, and production … linkages between labour force growth in one region and real wage and employment erosion in another are derived. These …
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Three main vantage points are brought together in this paper: (1) Israel’s relatively good economic performance in recent years – at least, in comparison with other Western countries that have still not emerged from the recession; (2) motivations for the wave of social protests that erupted...
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Due to its pyramid population structure, Egypt needs to create jobs at a high pace to absorb the many new entrants at its labour market. This article structurally models and quantifies the impact of these demographic shocks and the shedding of public sector jobs on unemployment. The findings...
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Variations among the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union (EU) hamper labor market mobility across national borders and also among firms within the countries of the EU. From a macroeconomic perspective, and in the light of demographic pressure, this paper argues...
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