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the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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are collective dismissal, fixed term contracts, contract labour, trade unions and unemployment insurance. Although the …
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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...
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We study the effect of an increase in the UK state pension age from 65 to 66, a high level internationally, on labour market activity. Despite there being limited financial incentives to retire at the state pension age, we find large effects: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4...
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This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...
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