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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649830
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The Global Economic Crisis: Long-Term Unemployment in the OECD
Junankar, Pramod N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … unemployment. There was a big fall in employment in the (especially) construction and manufacturing industries. The financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359854
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What Have We Learned? Assessing Labor Market Institutions and Indicators
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
: first, we provide an overview of the aggregate indicators of core labor market institutions such as employment protection … indicators in order to explain diverging patterns of national employment performance. Third, and finally, this paper draws some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703348
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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important … become self-employed. In the second part of the paper we study the economic outcome of self-employment in 2002 for Swedish … self-employment and having employees in the firm. The estimations show that those who were wage earners in 1998 have higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566730
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Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard; Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper provides an overview of institutional provisions and reforms regarding employment protection, active and … structures of both employment and unemployment complements this study. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762310
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Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics: The Chain Reaction Approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as ‘ ‘ chain reactions’’ of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703122
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Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703234
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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, Prices, and Growth
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor market adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703238
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Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment
Henry, Brian; Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemployment" (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763790
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Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure
Bosch, Nicole; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659255