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behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany. …
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-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
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part-time and full-time employment after 2002 essentially resulted from changes in registered and unregistered unemployment … unemployment reforms in explaining changes in unemployment, non-participation and part-time employment. …
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The official U.S. unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of actual labor market conditions. This poses a major challenge for researchers and confuses both the public and policy makers. A new definition of unemployment is proposed. It considers those part-time workers who would like to work...
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(unemployment scarring). It is not clear, however, whether this scarring is only caused by employment-related factors, such as … worsened working conditions, or increased future uncertainty as regards income and employment. Using German panel data, we … identify non-employment-related scarring by examining the transition of unemployed people to retirement as a life event after …
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-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …
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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this decline are the growth of part-time labor, the reform of the benefit system and wage moderation. Nevertheless, in 2002 the unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased...
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The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …
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