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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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telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …
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than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …
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This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …
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Late capitalism has entered a new phase. It is not only global and financialised, but also based on a new technological … developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …
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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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We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables (labour market regulation, union density, coordination in wage bargaining) to unemployment are a ffected by … market flexibilization or makes it harmful to employment. In Austria, Canada, Finland and Portugal, it reduces its …
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stability, while others experience crises in shorter intervals. To this end, we analyze the duration of stability periods …
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