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Investing in the Future of Jobs and Skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report Transport and Logistics

Davydenko, I.; Gijsbers, G.; Leis, M. - SEOR Erasmus University Rotterdam; Zentrum für Soziale …; … - 2009

The transport sector is one of the most important sectors for the European economy. Its importance stems not only from its size - which is estimated to be € 803 billion or 6.6% of European GDP in 2007 - but also from the fact that it plays a crucial role in connecting other economic actors...

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report Printing and Publishing

Gelderblom, A.; de Jong, GM.; Vroegop, J. - Nederlandse Organisatie voor …; … - 2009

Total employment in the printing, publishing, and recorded media industry in 2006 amounted to 1.91 million jobs, which … is equivalent to 0.87% of overall EU employment and 5.54% of EU manufacturing employment. The printing and publishing … sector is a fairly important sector in terms for employment for most regions across the EU. Employment is most concentrated …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Non-Metallic Materials

van der Zee, F.; Gijsbers, G.; Poliakov, E. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

natural resources (e.g. silica sand, clay, natural stone and rock) into marketable products. Overall employment in the EU in … the non-metallic materials sector amounted to 1.62 million people, which is 0.74% overall employment and 4.72% of overall … manufacturing employment in the EU. …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Furniture

Gijsbers, G.; van der Molen, S.; Llaudes, MJ - SEOR Erasmus University Rotterdam; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

Total employment for the sector aggregate Furniture and other industries amounted to 2,007,000 persons in 2006 in the … EU. Almost three-fourth of employment was concentrated in the furniture sector. The jewellery sector accounted for 6% of … total employment. Two-third of employment in furniture is still in the ‘old’ Member States, with Germany being ranked first …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals,...

van der Zee, F.; Brandes, F.; Sanders, J. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien - 2009

The chemicals industry is a major contributor to the EU economy in terms of output, value-added, employment, and (net …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs Sector Report - Post and Telecommunications

Dijkgraaf, E.; van der Zee, F.; Gijsbers, G. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

Post and telecoms were amongst the most changing sectors of the 1990s. Both sectors have now been privatised and opened up to competition following EU liberalisation law. The EU employed about 3.3 million post and telecoms workers in 2006. A large share of them, 83%, was working in the EU-15 and...

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Wage Flexibility in Turbulent Times; A Practitioner's Guide

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

This paper reviews several methods to measure wage flexibility, and their suitability for evaluating the extent of such flexibility during times of structural change, when wage distributions and wage curves can be particularly volatile. The paper uses nonparametric estimation to capture possible...

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Equilibrium Wage Dispersion; An Example

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is...

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Can Institutional Reform Reduce Job Destruction and Unemployment Duration? Yes it Can

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012

unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

JEL Cl This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...

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