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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
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This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
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the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …
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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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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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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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