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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One policy proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is...

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Canadian immigration experience : any lessons for Europe?

DeVoretz, Don J.; Laryea, Samuel A. - 1999

This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are...

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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions

Buscher, Herbert S.; Müller, Claudia - 1999

. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … cyclical component of the unemployment rate, it can be demonstrated that the whole reported impact solely affects this …

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Exploring the economic and social determinants of psychological and psychosocial health

Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2001

Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment …

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Identifying population groups at high risk of social exclusion : evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos O.; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "povertyʺ to "social exclusionʺ. Broadly interpreted, "social exclusionʺ implies the "inability of an individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functionings...

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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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An analysis of the processes of labour market exclusion and (re-)inclusion

Rosholm, Michael - 2001

unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …

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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : The employment effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002

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