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In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important caseworker heterogeneity: Some consider providing services to their clients and satisfying their...
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and sort individuals into three labour market regimes; employment, unemployment with and unemployment without … consistent with the assumptions of the structural model and suggest human capital depreciation for unemployment without programme …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …
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This paper investigates the consequences of pension reform for life-cycle unemployment and retirement. We find that (i …) improving actuarial fairness in pension assessment not only boosts old age participation but also reduces unemployment among … and welfare; (iii) excluding unemployment benefits from the pension assessment base reduces unemployment, encourages later …
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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This study analyzes the effects of inflation on the long-run nexus between unemployment and economic growth. We …-market tightness and increases unemployment. In summary, the model predicts a positive relationship between inflation and unemployment … variable that affects the economy, unemployment and economic growth exhibit a negative relationship. …
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We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...
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We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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