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This paper argues that we need more general statistical indices to analyse European labour markets. First, the paper discusses some normative aspects implicit in the current definition of the employment rate, which is a fundamental policy target in the new Europe 2020 strategy. Second, it...
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women remain inactive longer than men, especially when inactivity is for family care reasons. Unemployed women are more … stringent family care necessities. After the recession began in 2008, gender disparities in employment and inactivity declined …, thanks mainly to the reduction in women transitioning from employment to inactivity. …
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is applied to a bivariate VAR of output growth and changes in the unemployment rate for the US economy. The nonlinearity … is found to be statistically significant only in the unemployment equation and it transmits to GNP through the cross …
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The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop …, the rise in the unemployment rate has been curbed by extensive recourse to temporary income support schemes to reduce …
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is applied to a bivariate VAR of output growth and changes in the unemployment rate for the US economy. …
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wage, unemployment and inflation. This is done by considering a two-stage strategic interaction between a central bank (CB …
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The paper compares income inequality of households and individuals. Obviously, the latter is greater than the former; in fact households operate a broad redistribution of resources both between earners and non earners (children, unemployed, housewives), and between earners of unequal income....
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The paper analyzes the relationship between barriers to entry and employment in the Italian retail trade sector. In Italy the opening of large outlets is regulated at the regional level. By using differences-in-differences estimators I study the effects of the rules implemented in Abruzzo and...
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higher employer-initiated job turnover, and argues that wage setting institutions and job-security provisions differ across …
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differentials between employees and self-employed workers, unemployment rates and value added per capita account for more than half …
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