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In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
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In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
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Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...
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During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …
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This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...
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This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …
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This paper compares models used to explain OECD unemployment. The models suggest that the ?natural rate of unemployment …
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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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increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
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. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …
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