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reforms has been to create employment for disadvantaged groups on the labor market. I study Sweden, where a 50% tax deduction …
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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor …
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This paper studies the effects of the introduction of Germany's statutory minimum wage in 2015 on employment and … difference-in-differences approach that compares the evolution of employment and unemployment between regions with varying … regular employment subject to social insurance, but a statistically significant negative effect on marginal employment. The …
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This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009-10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work contracts is not uniform across sectors, size and...
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In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is...
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households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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attempt to assess the impact of green policies on employment. I draw two main conclusions from this exercise. First, my … small share of overall employment in the U.S, and one that has seen relatively weak growth in the last decade. Second, due …
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This letter discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the COVID-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment …. Thus export simulation studies in combination with input output analysis and employment analysis is useful. In the analysis … presented the focus is mainly on sectoral output and employment effects where the key sectors are the automotive sector …
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Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or...
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