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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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-paid service jobs, as non-wage labour costs are minimised. In France, fixed-term contracts are a flexible and also cheaper … can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …
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This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...
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In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade … treatment and from black labor supplementing some unemployment compensation in the Welfare treatment. Subjects have then to …
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Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …
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compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
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flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …
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In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We … higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …
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randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the efficiency of the public employment service (PES) vs …
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mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after François Mitterrand?s election in May 1981, the government … creation. These results should help us understand the possible effects of the upcoming mandatory reduction of hours in France … envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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