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Revisiting the Effects of Enhanced Flexibility on the Italian Labour Market
d'Agostino, Giorgio; Pieroni, Luca; Scarlato, Margherita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we assess the effects of the Italian labour market reforms which began in 2001 and which led to widespread deployment of temporary work contracts. Using a hitherto unexploited administrative dataset of work histories for the period 2003-2010, we estimate transition probabilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211861
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Flexicurity in the European Union: flexibility for outsiders, security for insiders
Van Vliet, Olaf; Nijboer, Henk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Flexicurity is at the heart of European policy debates. Its aim is to overcome the tensions between labour market flexibility on the one hand, and the provision of social security for workers on the other hand. To date, there is little insight into whether flexicurity policies have been adopted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652040
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The EU labour market crisis and recovery policies. The Bulgarian response to the crisis
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current study analyzes the status of both the European and the Bulgarian labor markets from the standpoint of the effects of the current crisis, which has affected the supply and demand of labor as well as the employment structure. It further examines the anti-crisis policies, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322632
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Indigenous Job Search Success
Gray, Matthew; Hunter, Boyd - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Our analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837174
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The efficiency analysis applied for the evaluation of labour market policies: Study case for Romania
Roman, Monica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The transition to a market economy started in Romania after 1989 and had significant repercussions on labor market outcomes, in terms of both levels and composition. Labor markets adjusted to the new economic environment by reducing employment and labor force participation, and by increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008623477
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China Integrates Asia with the World: An Empirical Study
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper focuses on China’s economic integration with Asia region and the world. It also attempts to find the long run … relation with short run dynamics of China’s trade in Asia and the world. The augmented Dicky-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips … the economic integration of China’s export to the US and its import from Asian nations using monthly aggregate data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271304
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China's Reforms: Past, Present, and Future
Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
the former Eastern Bloc countries and China whether they will continue to politically stable and their economy stays … note, I will mainly focus on China’s reform and institutional transition. This paper first views and evaluates the … achievements of China’s liberation and marketization reforms and institutional transition. Then it gives a rationale for China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258676
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Openness and competitiveness of manufacturing sector: a comparative study of China and India
Santra, Swarup; Bagaria, Nidhi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
buying locally made materials and intermediate goods it creates a good environment for the locally produced goods. For China … Financial Openness of China is showing mixed result, it increased until mid-1990s and it is showing the declining trend. In case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258757
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The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China
Chen, Yuyu; Wang, Hui; Yan, Se - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
culture and religion merely reflect the latter? We explore this issue by studying the case of Protestantism in China during …-term economic growth through other channels, such as through transformed social values. If so, then a significant amount of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258769
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Siblings, public facilities and education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in Chinese labour market. In order to overcome the endogeneity problem of schooling, we consider the siblings structure and the available public facilities as instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258793