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. We show that ERTEs stabilize unemployment rates by allowing workers to remain with their employers in highly affected …
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Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …
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Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …
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We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
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labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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EPL varying among workers of different skills on the level and composition of unemployment, job flows, productivity and …
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stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training …
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This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases …
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