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specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment …
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. When people retire, they could use their remaining UA balances to top up their pensions. Under the unemployment benefit …We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the …
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shedding in the 1970s and 1980s to combat open unemployment. As this was associated with an increasing burden of non-wage labor …
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This paper deals with two policy approaches to address the problem of the "pensions time bomb" by influencing private …-sector pension provision. In assessing the role of private-sector pensions, it is common to concentrate exclusively on the issue of … since private-sector pension arrangements have significant implications for governments' finances. When private pensions …
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In this paper, we examine major trends and potential for cooperatives in the context of four prominent socio-economic issues: the lack of jobs, economic and social inequality, educational mobility, and the priority need for innovations. We present recent data on the amount and types of job...
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …
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probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … immigrant women from the ESDC, who are more likely than married immigrant women from the same countries to be economic migrants …
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-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
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