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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …
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An economic analysis of unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago
Downes, Andrew S. - 1998 - Revised August 1998
Unemployment is regarded as one of the most challenging economic problems facing the governments of the Caribbean. Although there are variations in the measurement of unemployment, official estimates obtained from labor force surveys indicate that in 1995 the unemployment rate ranged from 7.8...
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Ties that bind : employment protection and labor market outcomes in Latin America
Pagés, Carmen; Márquez, Gustavo - 1998
This paper reviews the regulations governing hiring, firing, overtime work, social security contributions, minimum wages, and collective bargaining in the region, examining their impact on labor market outcomes.
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Labour market reforms and unemployment : lessons from the experience of the OECD countries
Scarpetta, Stefano - 1998
The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...
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The IMF and the social dimensions of growth : a content analysis of recent Article IV surveillance reports 2014-2015
Ray, Nikhil; Schmitz, Laura - 2016
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
verwenden wir, um die Auswirkungen der Hartz-Reformen der Jahre 2003 bis 2005 auf den Arbeitsmarkt zu bewerten. In der Tat …
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Which factors are behind Germany's labour market upswing?
Hutter, Christian; Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo; … - 2019
The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
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Where did all the unemployed go? : non-standard work in Germany after the Hartz reforms
Rothe, Thomas; Wälde, Klaus - 2017
The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million to 3.6 million by 2008. At the same time, employment increased by 1.2 million. Most theoretical and empirical analyses of this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment...
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Rethinking macroeconomic policies for full employment and inclusive growth : some elements
Parisotto, Aurelio; Ray, Nikhil - 2017
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Labour market institutions and youth labour markets : minimum wages and youth employment revisited
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Moscariello, Valentino - 2017
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