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over wage negotiations and working conditions. Currently, Austria's GDP per capita is high, but unemployment, although …Austria is an interesting economy due to its strong industrial relations with institutionalized collective bargaining …
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) aided the adjustment. The Covid-19 downturn resulted in an unprecedented decline in employment, and a steep rise in … unemployment and non-participation. Despite the severity of the Covid-19 shock, by December 2021 most key measures of labor market …
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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …
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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
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The economic crisis in the early 1990s brought about a dramatic increase in unemployment and a similar decrease in … labor force participation. Unemployment declined afterwards, but stabilized at around 6–7%—more than twice as high as before … the crisis. Today, the unemployment rate is lower than the EU average, though Sweden no longer stands out in this respect …
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years old) have, on average, accounted for all of US employment growth over the past few decades. New businesses are … especially important for youth employment. However, these businesses tend to borrow a lot, and the credit constraints they face …
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Spending time sleeping not only improves individuals' well-being, but it can influence employment outcomes and … sleep on employee fatigue and cognitive performance, and the associated effects on employment disruption and productivity … loss. Sleep can be influenced by "sleep friendly" employment regulations, technology nudges, monetary incentives, and …
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The responses of working hours and employment levels to temporary negative demand shocks like those caused by the Great …' desired rises in working hours in times of recession also serve to modify the standard measure of unemployment. During Covid … useful comparison with the provision of improved unemployment insurance to unemployed workers at that time. …
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