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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups

Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...

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The economics of language: an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003

interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000

are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents …

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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins

Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, Coralia - 2008

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state: the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: a survey

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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