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The Netherlands is an example of a highly institutionalized labor market that places considerable attention on equity concerns. The government and social partners (unions and industry associations) seek to adjust labor market arrangements to meet the challenges of increased international...
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reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …
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reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …
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Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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When hiring new workers, employers use a wide variety of different recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement, such as adjusting education, experience or technical requirements, or offering higher wages. The intensity with which employers make use of these alternative...
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instruments. Important developments since 2000 include steadily decreasing unemployment rates (since 2005), increasing …
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labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the full recovery of unemployment from the depths of the …
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and unemployment showed little sensitivity. Workers have paid the price for this rather stable employment situation in the …
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labor force participation rate, reversing a nearly 50-year trend; the nearly full recovery of unemployment from the depths …
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Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
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