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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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Recent evidence suggests that automation technologies entail a trade-off between productivity gains and employment …. It shows significant productivity and employment gains from automation in Indonesian manufacturing during the years 2008 … adoption, such as Indonesia. Second, the analysis finds significant positive employment spillovers from automation in …
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This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment … robots' activities, rather than on their industries of employment, the analysis reveals for the first time reinstatement …
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and present empirical evidence of heterogeneity in the response to the NPIs with those in the local employment being the …
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Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...
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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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This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment … constraints have been essentially detrimental for employment among SMEs experiencing a negative demand shock or facing strong … product market competition. In terms of human resources management, credit constraints are not only found to foster employment …
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The estimation of the employment effects of offshore safety and environmental regulation is often highly speculative … statements in support or, or in opposition to, proposed regulations. Much more reliable estimates of such employment effects can … microeconomic model explaining the effects of offshore regulations on employment, assuming the standard profit-maximization behavior …
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higher overall employment in the local markets, which increased by 40%, can be attributed to the deregulation. …
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This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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