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How did immigrants fare in the Irish labour market over the Great Recession?

Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2016

This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this relationship has evolved since the downturn. We find that the employment penalty suffered by immigrant workers, relative to native workers, increased significantly over the Irish...

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Addressing labour market challenges for sustainable and inclusive growth in Israel

Koelle, Michael - 2023

High employment growth has sustained Israel’s high GDP growth in recent decades, but demographic change and labour market duality put future growth at risk. Policy action is required to stimulate employment and raise labour productivity, especially among population groups with weaker labour...

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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation

Herd, Richard - 2010

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

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What shifts did covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 15, pp. 1447-1454

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The Czech labour market : documenting structural change and remaining challenges

Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015

youth unemployment are persistent and especially affect the lower-skilled. Skill and occupational mismatches of vocational … time, the labour market has been responding faster to output shocks and output growth consistent with constant unemployment …-term unemployment. …

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Making the labour market work better in Poland

Boulhol, Hervé - 2014

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

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Enhancing employability and skills to meet labour market needs in Italy

Garda, Paula - 2017

The various deficiencies of the labour market and the educational system have resulted in high unemployment, low labour … force participation, low skills levels and high skill mismatch. Job creation is key to tackling the high unemployment rates … a priority. Business involvement in education and training institutions at all educational levels will be paramount to …

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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland

Braconier, Henrik - 2010

major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The …

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Migration in OECD countries : Labour Market Impact and Integration Issues

Jean, Sébastien; Causa, Orsetta; Jimenez, Miguel; … - 2007

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

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