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mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …
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decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
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feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …
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small increases in unemployment risk and no wage effects on the individual level, despite a 30% increase in plant mortality …
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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in Italy. Courses aimed at raising parental awareness of the importance of educational activities were offered in four cities (Naples, Reggio Emilia, Teramo and Palermo) within the...
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countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
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, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …
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Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
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to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal in an adjacent comparison year as a result of movements in the real …
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Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paper focuses on how the...
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