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Mitigating Long-Term Unemployment in Europe

Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2021

While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long …-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover …, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the long-term unemployment. This paper explores factors associated with long …

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The parental home as labor market insurance for young Greeks during the crisis

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Pantalidou, Maria - 2017

Labor market conditions in Greece have severely deteriorated during the crisis, affecting youths the most. Using the Greek crisis as a case-study, this paper examines the role of the family as a social safety net for its young members. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor...

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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration : the Chinese case in an international perspective

Michele, Bruni - 2018

China still lags behind Europe along the path of the demographic transition and therefore is still much younger. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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Reforms and employment in the Egyptian labor market : evolution by age from 1988 to 2006

Selwaness, Irene - 2020

This paper aims to study the evolution in the age composition of males' employment in the aftermath of the public sector downsizing in the 1990s -during the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Policies - and the new labor law in 2003. This answers the question of whether young (15-29) and...

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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017

Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...

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Artificial intelligence and employment : a look into the crystal ball

Guarascio, Dario; Reljic, Jelena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2023

This study provides evidence of the employment impact of AI exposure in European regions, addressing one of the many gaps in the emerging literature on AI's effects on employment in Europe. Building upon the occupation-based AI-exposure indicators proposed by Felten et al. (2018, 2019, 2021),...

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Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Work : Stronger Policies to Support Gender Equality

Alonso, Cristian - 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder the burden of unpaid work: on average, women do two more hours of unpaid work per day than men,...

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Employment Protection Deregulation and Labor Shares in Advanced Economies

Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2018

Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver of the decline in labor shares that took place across most advanced economies since the early 1990s. This paper assesses the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of...

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Still Attached? Are Social Safety Nets Working? Labor Force Participation in European Regions

Hilgenstock, Benjamin - 2018

The paper examines the evolution and drivers of labor force participation in European regions, focusing on the effects of trade and technology. As in the United States, rural regions within European countries saw more pronounced declines (or smaller increases) in participation than urban...

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