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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel stärker betont, Bildung endlich zum Top-Thema macht, die Lebensarbeitszeit fair verlängert und … angesichts von Demografie, Globalisierung und Technologiefortschritt nicht ihren eigenen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg aufs Spiel …
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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?
Rosholm, Michael; Vejlin, Rune M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and innovation, trying to map – using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature – the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
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Der Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht den Wandel der Erwerbsformen in Deutschland und zeigt, dass atypische Beschäftigung in bestimmten Sektoren und Berufen zum Aufbau von Erwerbstätigkeit beigetragen hat, gleichzeitig ist jedoch das so genannte Normalarbeitsverhältnis nach wie vor die bei...
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...
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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
In this paper we use a reform in the applicability of the Protection Against Dismissal Act or Kündigungsschutzgesetz in Germany to identify employment effects of the legislation for small establishments. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1997-2001, we find some evidence that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761826
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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...
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Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...
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Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
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