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jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to … workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their involvement in various forms of post-school skills formation. The countries …
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sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid … growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused on the pursuit of formal credentials rather than productive skills …
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Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
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. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …
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skills using pre-program data and then forecasting the program impacts. We compare the forecasts to observed aggregate labor …
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compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
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In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current … situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education … the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall …
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
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We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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skills or abilities in the most technical fields of education (engineering, computing, manufacturing). The above average … graduates) or increased skills due to student work (i.e. computing graduates). …
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