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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country characterized by lax employment protection legislation …, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the … labor supply and employment, targeting the young, elderly, and immigrants. Employment recovered to its structural level …
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exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We … find that the negligible long term impact of automation on employment conceals significant short term positive and negative … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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Employment and labor force participation (LFP) rates have increased throughout Europe since the 1990s, with little … might actually be more important. This implies that the overall employment rate of an economy can change if the share of the …
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policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the … self-employed in European countries. No significant relation could be identified between the stringency of employment … protection and aggregate self-employment. However, there are significant, and oppositely signed, impacts on high- and low …
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This paper explores the economic consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with countries from Central and Eastern Europe. We focus on integration aspects that go beyond the reduction of formal trade barriers, namely accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. The...
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The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe - as well as one of the most disadvantaged. A triple vicious circle is at play: Substandard socio-economic outcomes reinforce each other; they fuel negative attitudes and perceptions, leading to ill-chosen policies; and segmentation is...
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The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...
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Aside from employment protection laws, which have been converging, other labor market institutions in new and old EU …
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