Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … through official or unofficial migration, despite various obstacles to labour mobility, including the registration system and … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring …

This paper uses household survey (Sakernas) data from the 1996 and 2004 to estimate the determinants of earnings in …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

youths’ future life chances. Indeed, intergenerational persistence in educational and employment outcomes appears very high …

), household income and expenditure (Susenas) and the industrial sector (Survei Industri) to construct a district-level dataset … spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the … increase in employment: a rise in informal-sector employment more than compensates for job losses in the formal sector. This …

respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …

household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … and that a tertiary qualification improves an individual’s prospects of employment. While the premium for matric and …

proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the … significant relationship is found between the school quality measures and employment.<P>This Working Paper relates to the 2013 …

mobility induce significant resource misallocation. Employment protection is not particularly stringent, but the labour market … nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both …