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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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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel...
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