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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …
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The Italian economy has a strong tax evasion and the presence of a very extensive shadow economy with profound effects on our GDP. This paper analyzes the study Claudio Lucifora has done on the shadow economy, the result of extensive research on the subject, which led to the publication of the...
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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also the need for the involvement of various social actors: companies, state, local institutions, public administration … to overcome structural unemployment of long duration. …
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Employment, unemployment and, more generally, the theme of work are the issues that have become a social emergency and … are central to the debate on economic growth. This paper examines the employment and unemployment in Italy and Europe in …
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Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …
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In this paper I will examine the growth models of Romer (1986) and Lucas (1988) which constitute an important first core to the endogenous growth theory, in order to understand the characteristics, to highlight the relationship between knowledge and economic growth and / or emphasize the...
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This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...
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-based economy, it focuses on the relationship between knowledge-based economies and the role of institutions. Institutions and the … institutions to build and establish itself over time, it is necessary a certain degree of flexibility in the institutional regime …
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