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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269200
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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269379
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The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278796
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Employment protection reform in search economies
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2006
contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267815
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277963
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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268722
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Estimating the effect of student aid on college enrollment: evidence from a government grant policy reform
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Sørensen, Torben; Taber, Christopher - 2008
Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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The Value of Socialized Medicine: The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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