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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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Firm closures and labor market policies in Europe : evidence from retrospective longitudinal data
Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023
We examine the impact of active and passive labor market policies expenditures on the probability of re-employment, re-employment … duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … contrast to passive labor market policies, investing in active labor market policies increases the re-employment probability …
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Theory and empirics of short-time work : a review
Bermudez, Natalia; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Tarullo, Giulia - 2023
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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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
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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The impact of COVID-19 on health workers : a health labor market perspective to improve response
Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola; Cometto, Giorgio; … - 2024
This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a collection of literature using a standardized measurement framework to determine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant...
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Women, violence and work : threat of sexual violence and women's decision to work
Chakraborty, Tanika; Lohawala, Nafisa - 2022
The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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Germany's labour market in Coronavirus distress : new challenges to safeguarding employment
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021
We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison … to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas … more than twice as large as that in May 2009. Furthermore, marginal employment is affected strongly but not protected by …
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Are temporary jobs stepping stones or dead ends? : a meta-analytical review of the literature
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2021
contracts are a port of entry into stable employment positions, 23% report ambiguous or mixed findings, and the remaining 45 …
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