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(long-term) unemployment and follow an ‘adaptive' approach: improving the ‘employability' of the unemployed, which is seen … approach to back-to-work initiatives, so that society's share of responsibilities for long-term unemployment and social …
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Degressivity of unemployment benefits is a major feature of social protection in most industrialised countries: the … the unemployment spell. Moreover degressivity of unemployment benefits has significant distributive effects as the risk of … long-term unemployment varies from one individual to another. This paper proposes a formal model of political support for …
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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …
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This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...
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with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …
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This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …
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can facilitate access to the labor market for younger people and help lower global unemployment. But many questions remain … relationship between labor force participation of the old and unemployment of the young in France since the beginning of the 1970s … unemployment rate. Even controlling for the economic cycle, this positive association remains - albeit less robustly. These …
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fall during a cycle into a Keynesian unemployment state. In that case, cycle dynamic is broken because wages are squeezed …
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