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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

(automotive and financial services) of the economy. The estimation results suggest that future integration processes lead to an …

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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand

Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 2004

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well....

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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2003

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic...

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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2003

This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I show union density to increase in countries experiencing strong manufacturing growth, and to decline...

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Does offshoring of materials and business services affect employment? Evidence from a small open economy

Michel, Bernhard; Rycx, François - 2009

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates...

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Dropping out of School? A Competing Risks Analysis of Young Immigrants? Progress in the Educational System

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

This paper analyses the drop-out and graduation behaviour of young 1st generation immigrants enrolled in a qualifying education in the period 1984-1999. The descriptive analyses show that the low educational achievements among young immigrants compared to young ethnic Danes found in other...

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of residence and the...

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence

Damm, Anna Piil; Rosholm, Michael - 2003

into relocation to another municipality by joint estimation of the duration of the first non-employment spell and time … until relocation. The main estimation results are as follows: First, the hazard rate into first job is increasing in the …

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Compensating wage differentials for schooling risk in Denmark

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop; Skyt Nielsen, Helena - 2003

risks. Hence, we state a return-risk trade-off for the human capital investments in Denmark. …

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The Impact of Family-Friendly Policies in Denmark and Sweden on Mothers? Career Interruptions Due to Childbirth

Pylkkänen, Elina; Smith, Nina - 2004

We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women?s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In … childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and share the same type of welfare state ideology, but differ remarkably in … focused much more on flexible leave schemes and on the shared responsibilities of the parents than in Denmark. …

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