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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil. Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution - the inexperienced and the old - have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits’ average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703248
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The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence
Gal, Peter N.; Hijzen, Alexander; Wolf, Zoltan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent …
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