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Female Labour Force Participation : Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
Jaumotte, Florence - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of female labour force participation in OECD countries, including a number of policy instruments such as the tax treatment of second earners (relative to single individuals), childcare subsidies, child benefits, paid maternity and parental leaves, and tax...
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From Ideas to Development : The Determinants of R&D and Patenting
Jaumotte, Florence - 2005
the labour market for researchers, estimating jointly equations for employment and wages. Although the supply of …
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Coping with Ageing : A Dynamic Approach to Quantify the Impact of Alternative Policy Options on Future Labour Supply in OECD Countries
Burniaux, Jean-Marc - 2004
In the face of the substantial ageing of population expected to occur in OECD countries over coming decades, policies that boost labour-force participation attract considerable interest. There remain large cross-country divergences in participation rates that are largely accounted for by...
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The Spanish labor market in a cross-country perspective
Jaumotte, Florence - 2011
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The Spanish Labor Market in a Cross-Country Perspective
Jaumotte, Florence - 2011
The Spanish labor market is not working: the unemployment rate is structurally very high; wages are not very responsive … to labor market conditions, causing a high cyclicality of unemployment; and the labor market is highly dual. Compared … bringing the unemployment rate closer to the EU15 average. The key reform needed to reduce the share of temporary workers is …
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