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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures

Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...

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A Contribution to Unemployment Dynamics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when...

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Coping with Technological Progress: The Role of Ability in Making Inequality so Persistent

Rubinstein, Yona; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence. At each level of schooling, a faster rate of technological progress weakens the link between schooling and work and increases the unknown needed to cope with during one's...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …

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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper explains how a country can fall into a 'low-skill, bad-job trap', in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little...

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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

-school qualifications and overseas born. About one-third of near-minimum wage workers are the sole worker in their household. Due to low …-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …

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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reduction of Standard Hours in Germany

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114354

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