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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Families, public policies, and the labor market

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V. - 2024

Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in family dynamics and labor market interactions, with shifts in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, family labor supply, gender inequality, and childrearing. This chapter examines the impact of government policies on these...

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The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the …

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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences

Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002

Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy … conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in Sweden in the 1990s are not an efficient means of employment policy. To be …

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Technology and Labor Regulations : Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto - 2015

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation,...

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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons

Solow, Robert M. - 2000

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Technology and Labor Regulations

Alesina, Alberto - 2013

Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the quot;topquot;, i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This … paper suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies …

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Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper examines what is known about the causes of the high and increasing levels of youth joblessness and related problems in the youth labor market. Partly because of inconsistencies in reported rates of youth employment across surveys and partly because of problems in measuring key social...

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Employment and Occupational Advance Under Affirmative Action

Leonard, Jonathan S. - 2021

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to help move them up the job ladder, and it is this second goal that is perhaps the more controversial. Studies of Affirmative Action during thel ate 1960's and early 1910's found it...

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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

Edwards, Sebastian; Edwards, Alejandra Cox - 2021

This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent...

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