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measured by the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in percent of the total youth population. Korea …
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implementation of four strategies: First, investive social transfers, in particular by establishing a European Fund for Employment …
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ambiguous effect on employment. Subsidies to part-time do increase employment, but they have ambiguous effects on hours and … unambiguous positive effects on market employment and production. …
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'Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been … matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment …
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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...
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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 … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding 'standard employment relationship' nor of its potential …
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This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
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This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …
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direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical … wage and employment. This paper estimates the employment effect of the minimum wage using a number of political variables … indicate that an increase in the minimum wage has very small adverse effects on employment. …
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