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more intensively treated tracks experienced a decline in the probability of employment during the year following high …
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unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …
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unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … unemployment. There was a big fall in employment in the (especially) construction and manufacturing industries. The financial …
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been expected given trends in recent years. At the same time, employment was about 12 percent lower at the end of June than … industries affected by the crisis and tied the major form of income support to the maintenance of employment relationships. …
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youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …. However, two to six months after the training, the employment effect of the program drops to zero. A third of the placed …
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effects and lagged unemployment. We also use industrial firm's expectations of future employment, which are also predictive of …
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labyrinth of obstacles. While Public Employment Services employ Active Labor Market Policies, their effectiveness for this group … remains uncertain. This study introduces the Employment Readiness Indicator Questionnaire (ERIQ), transcending traditional … employment categories by assessing individuals' progress toward employment and measuring employment readiness for those labeled …
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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and thereby increase their income from employment. We find that these reforms led to an average increase in the hours … income of between 8 and 12 percent, and an increase of between 20 and 29 percent in earnings from employment. Finally, the …
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This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is...
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