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This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is … unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate. The empirical analysis is based on a newly available unique dataset … from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...
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This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with...
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the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …
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This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil.Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …
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The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...
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of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …
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This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
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Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...
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