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instantaneous features of participation such as, perhaps, the adoption of a more rigorous daily routine. Unemployment benefits …
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In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched...
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Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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traditional government-sponsored short-time work. -- unemployment ; Germany ; Great Recession ; short time work ; working time …Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
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of short-time work since its emergence in Germany in the 1930s. It analyzes its effectiveness as a job preservation …
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directed at the older unemployed in Germany. To identify the treatment effects, we exploit regional variation in program …
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Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis … pressing policy priorities in supporting different groups into employment in Australia. We identify seven distinct groups, each …
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addition to unemployment benefits when they are dismissed. Therefore, we conduct a state-of-the-art scenario experiment in … - from partaking in this regime because it seemingly mitigates the regular stigmatisation of long-term unemployment …
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This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment … in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from … employment to unemployment increased. The impact of some of the factors identified as contributing to the likelihood of a …
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