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The effects of COVID-19 on employment, labour markets and gender equality in Central America
Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021
This study considers the economic impact of Covid-19 on enterprises in four Central American countries – El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. At the time of the analysis neither the pandemic nor its economic consequences had fully run their course. It is not, therefore, a definitive...
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the Chinese labor market demand during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The analyses reveal that the lockdown policy, which was implemented in Wuhan on January 23, 2020,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172857
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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? : a theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950725
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Do financial incentives promote the employment of the disabled?
Verick, Sher (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226372
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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidizing market-contracted household work
Brück, Tilman (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Threshold effects of dismissal protection legislation in Germany
Verick, Sher (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001893984
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Disparities in labour market and income trends during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis : evidence from Germany
Braband, Carsten; Consiglio, Valentina Sara; Grabka, … - 2022
This paper studies inequalities in labour market outcomes, incomes and economic concerns across workers in Germany … pillars of Germany's policy response to the crisis, prevented a further widening of labour market inequalities. In spite of …
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Before and after the Hartz reforms : the performance of active labour market policy in Germany
Jacobi, Lena (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2007
flexible und sichere Übergänge auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu gewährleisten und über Weiterbildung die Anpassung an veränderte … Anforderungen zu erleichtern. -- Labor market reforms ; unemployment protection ; activation ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586578
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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