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Does Employment Protection Inhibit Labor Market Flexibility? Lessons from Germany, France and Belgium

Abraham, Katherine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1993

Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...

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Promoting Self Employment Among the Unemployed in Hungary and Poland

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1999

To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5,500 follow-up interviews were conducted in early 1997 by employees of local labor offices with persons in self-employment participant and comparison group samples. Wide ranging...

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An Impact Analysis of Labor Market Programs in Hungary

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1995

This paper presents estimates of the impact of retraining and public service employment (PSE) on reemployment and earnings in the Republic of Hungary during the early phase of post-Socialist economic restructuring. Since assignment to programs resulted in groups with vastly dissimilar...

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Preliminary Evidence on Impacts of Active Labor Programs in Hungary and Poland

O'Leary, Christopher J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1997

To ease the hardship associated with worker dislocation and to maintain social stability during the transition to markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of...

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A Framework for Assessing the Economic Benefits and Costs of Workplace Literacy Training

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1996

Many individuals are grappling with the issue of whether to provide workers with training that upgrades the workers' basic academic skills. The corollary questions that flow from this issue are how to provide the training, how much training should be provided, and who should pay for the...

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Postsecondary Education as Triage: Returns to Academic and Technical Programs

Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1992

This paper examines the labor market outcomes of individuals with various types of postsecondary educational … the labor market rewards credentials. Wage and earnings models yield different structural parameter estimates when based …

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Urban Labor Markets

Eberts, Randall W. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

Urban labor markets are characterized by the spatial proximity of households and businesses, which offers firms and workers advantages that lead to more efficient markets, enhanced productivity, and greater economic success. Nevertheless, the nation's city, while generating a large proportion of...

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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements

Thomason, Terry; Schmidle, Timothy P.; John F. Burton Jr. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several … insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 … adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace …

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The Economics of natural and Unnatural Disasters

Kern, William (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book presents a group of notable scholars who examine the relationship between globalization and poverty from a number of diverse perspectives.

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The Economics of Risk

Meyer, Donald J. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

enterprises, agricultural markets, auctions, and health insurance. …

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