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Whatever works : dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010

can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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The transition from work to retirement

Eichhorst, Werner - 2011

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions

Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010

The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...

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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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How to combine the entry of young people in the labour market with the retention of older workers?

Eichhorst, Werner; Boeri, Tito; De Coen, An; Galasso, … - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups. The evidence collected shows that there is no...

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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...

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The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK … Research Assessment Exercise period 2001-2008. I conclude that it is possible to produce an objective measure of world …

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Welfare and employment : a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Assessing the performance of school-to-work transition regimes in the EU

Hadjivassiliou, Kari P; Tassinari, Arianna; Eichhorst, … - 2016

The Great Recession that has engulfed Europe since 2008 has had a profound impact on the process of young people's school-to-work (STW) transition. Countries' institutional configurations considerably matter in shaping the structure of young people's STW transitions and mediating the impact of...

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