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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884390
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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
unemployed youth are briefly reviewed; differences between Europe and the United States show in particular the importance of … times of recession. The main part is devoted to possible lessons for Korea from Europe, in particular from Germany. Dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388
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Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822033
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‘Marginal Employment’: Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
'Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822715
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506085
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Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and 2008, on the basis of the European Labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548712
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Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second … can be derived and illustrated by good practice examples from Europe, in particular Germany. Third, because a large part …, however, is devoted to possible lessons for India from Europe, in particular from countries with low youth unemployment like …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118271
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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden: Premium or Selection?
Irastorza, Nahikari; Bevelander, Pieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884098
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959693
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Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Poverty in Sweden: An Innovative Analysis of Individual Neighbourhood Histories
van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279261