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Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
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Using data from the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates and a sample of Harvard alumnae, we study the relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor force participation rates across high-education fields....
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distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … funds ; dynamic panel models ; spatial panel econometrics ; regional employment effects …
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All across Europe, old age labor force participation has declined dramatically during the last decades. This secular trend coincides with population aging. The European social security systems therefore face a double threat: retirees receive pensions for a longer time while there are less...
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This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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