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’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is …By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …
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The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...
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The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
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this reform process. Macedonia is the country in Europe with one of the highest unemployment rates and a very large … incidence of long-term unemployment. A third area of discussion in the paper is, therefore, the development and implementation … the stylized facts of Macedonian unemployment. …
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and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …
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Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
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statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second …, it provides a simple but powerful model for the main causes of youth unemployment from which general policy strategies … can be derived and illustrated by good practice examples from Europe, in particular Germany. Third, because a large part …
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Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the …
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domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …
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Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
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