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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
By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea’s youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388
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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
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506085
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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Andrews, Martyn J.; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Schank, Thorsten; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553738
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A Primer on the 35-Hour in France, 1997–2007
Askenazy, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762098
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The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Pastore, José - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371884
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
L’Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703692
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822839
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
cyclicality in respect of the national unemployment rate as well as the district rates. Weekly hours and real weekly earnings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530643
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Older Workers and Working Time
Bell, David N.F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686908
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article shows that this reform has had no significant impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804893