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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
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The effects of public sector employment on the economy : the size and wage level of the public sector affect overall employment volatility and the economy
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2017
Public sector jobs are created because governments opt to provide goods and services produced directly by public employees. Governments, however, may also choose to regulate the size of the public sector in order to stabilize targeted national employment levels. However, economic research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664993
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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted
Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015
Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …
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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay off these staff, the schemes help to maintain permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413675
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Recruiting intensity : recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in the labor market
Faberman, R. Jason - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414176
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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...
Spermann, Alexander - 2016
Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456169
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A flexicurity labor market during recession : long-term unemployment did not rise under the flexicurity model during the great recession, despite the large drop in GDP
Andersen, Torben M. - 2015
low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a … employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social …
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Wage coordination in new and old EU member states : stronger wage coordination and higher union density are associated with lower unemployment and higher infaltion
Rovelli, Riccardo - 2016
Aside from employment protection laws, which have been converging, other labor market institutions in new and old EU member states, such as wage bargaining coordination and labor union density, still differ considerably. These labor market institutions also differ among the new EU member states,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434034
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Effects of entering adulthood during a recession : recent declines in youth employment, net worth, and family formation could permanently affect financial well-being
Dettling, Lisa J. - 2016
Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456129
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya - 2019
Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022520