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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies
Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
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Does Entrepreneurship create enough Jobs in Europe?
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006
which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment... …
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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
van Acht, Joost; Stam, Joop A.; Thurik, Adriaan Roy; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004
unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865257
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The Persistence of Self-Employment Across Borders:New Evidence on Legal Immigrants to the United States
Akee, Randall K. Q.; Jaeger, David A.; Tatsiramos, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using recently-available data from the New Immigrant Survey, we find that previous selfemploymentexperience in an immigrant´s country of origin is an important determinant oftheir self-employment status in the U.S., increasing the probability of being self-employed byabout 7 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860586
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Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and theIncidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe : 1995–2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, Iinvestigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and ontemporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated,with the inclusion of country-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860772
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The Trend in Female Labour Force Participation:What Can Be Expected for the Future?
Euwals, Rob; Knoef, Marike; Vuuren, Daniël J. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labourforce participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over thesuccessive generations of women, and produces an educated guess for future participation.For this purpose, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861151
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to theearlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861190
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No Education, No Good Jobs?Evidence on the Relationship betweenEducation and Labor Market Segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs andself-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately atthe markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature ofthe latter....
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Safety Net Still in Transition: Labour Market IncentiveEffects of Extending Social Support in Poland
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by nowcomplete. However, the route Polish governments have so far taken concerning the systemof support for low-income families still implies very different poverty alleviation schemescompared to those found in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861416
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status ofEthnic Minorities in Britain
Kahanec, Martin; Mendola, Mariapia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The labor market outcomes of ethnic minorities in advanced societies and their dependenceon social relationships and membership in social networks are important empirical issueswith significant policy consequences...
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