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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, William Stanley - 2002
its domestic reform agenda, today largely in place. That agenda comprises two general pieces of employment and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276575
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Social Security and Taxation of Labour Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2002
paper pleads for a reform in European policy coordination. The Employment Principle should be replaced with the Principle of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262749
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Mobility within Europe - What do we (still not) know?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262800
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268969
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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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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Addison, John T.; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
its domestic reform agenda, today largely in place. That agenda comprises two general pieces of employment and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822623
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Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union : Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias; Hebler, Martin - 2004
With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According to the Copenhagen criteria, the CEEC candidate countries have to adopt the former via the acquis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261805
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269155