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Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and …-socialist countries from the Life in Transition-2 survey, we find that trade union members were less likely than similar non-members to … lose their jobs during the crisis. This beneficial effect of trade union membership was more pronounced in countries which …
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Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this...
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This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard work using micro data. The analysis proceeds in two steps. First, using comprehensive establishment-level datasets for the period 1991-2009, it provides a detailed portrait of...
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There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity have been hampered by small samples and measurement...
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