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The paper looks at how the distribution of jobs by complexity and firms' willingness to hire low educated labor for jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway,Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified workers can attend complex jobs, it compares their...
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To the extent minimum-wage regulation is effective in fighting against excessive earnings handicaps of those at the bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and...
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In light of the importance of immigrants' labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the employment convergence between foreign-born and native-born in the European Union (EU), by gender and broad region of origin - distinguishing between immigrants born within and...
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By making use of the Duncan&Hoffman model, the paper estimates returns to educational mismatch using comparable microdata for 25 European countries. Our aim is to investigate the extent to which the main empirical regularities produced by other papers on the subject are confirmed by our data...
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This paper uses microdata to look at stylised facts of EU-wide income inequality during the 2006-2013 period. Our contribution is to bring together four elements of the analysis that has appeared only in separation so far. Our analysis is EU-wide, but regionally detailed, looks at the longeset...
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determinant of unemployment, it seems reasonable to expect that long-discovered systemic differences in unemployment across groups … flexibility/rigidity ; unemployment …
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The paper looks at outflows from registered unemployment in Hungary between 1992 and 1996 using microdata from the … unemployment insurance system. We address two questions. First, we investigate the trends in outflows in the period. A related … question is whether the decline in the unemployment stock from early 1993 is associated with an increase in the outflow. Second …
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The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …
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groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …
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