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This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the …
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empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite … and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …
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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 …
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collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
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suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …
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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …
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This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local … likelihood of employment in Europe as a function of a set of explanatory variables that include immigrant concentration in local …
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Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution - the inexperienced and the old - have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits’ average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease...
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The standard wage equation proposed by Mincer (1974) assumes that individuals start working after leaving school, which is not the actual case for many people. Using longitudinal data on Portuguese male workers, former working students, we estimate the total impact of an additional year of...
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This paper argues in favor of a dynamic specification of the Mincer equation, where past observed earnings play the role of additional explanatory variable for current observed earnings. A dynamic approach offers an explanation why the return to schooling in terms of observed earnings is not...
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