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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …
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the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … exemption and the unemployment benefit payments affect domestic wage setting in the same way as in the absence of outsourcing …
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How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …
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effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous …
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