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Labour markets in transition: the case of Eastern Europe. In 1989 a political revolution in the Soviet Union and its Eastern Europeansatellites led to the dismantling of Communist controls and transition toward freemarkets in goods and services and factors of production
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of financial crises on the youth unemployment rate (YUR … unemployment. The inclusion of many control variables – including in particular GDP growth – does not change the sign and …-to-work transition institutions are particularly needed to reduce the risk of persistence and structural (long-term) unemployment, since …
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(NOMIS) to conduct a detailed statistical analysis of the spatial differentials in exits from and entry to unemployment … Scotland have become worse off in terms of the risk of unemployment and despite active labour market intervention. Research … policies in Scotland do not work in terms of reducing the risk of unemployment. Policy needs to focus on creating demand for …
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gradually adapting to unemployment. As regards human capital, it is worth noticing that the results in 2004 are in accordance …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically investigate the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on employment prospects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a theoretical approach that discusses the effects of two major...
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The deteriorating labour market position of low‐skilled workers challenges economic efficiency and social equity. Four aspects are examined: joblessness among the low‐skilled; the prevalence of low pay among women; persistence in low pay; and the overlap between low pay and household poverty....
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Britain’s New Labour Government has radically shifted its policy aims away from securing traditional full employment towards the improvement of “employability”. This paper briefly assesses what is meant by employability and how the Government has integrated its “supply side” approach...
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Despite improved employment performance across the OECD in the late 1990s, unemployment remains a key issue for …
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Analyses factors determining the outflows from unemployment to employment across regions in Poland over the years 1992 … structure of the regional labour markets in Poland. Concludes that the values of outflows from unemployment to employment are …; and that the employment structure of regional labour markets has a strong impact on outflows from unemployment to …
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‐evaluated vis‐à‐vis both their labour‐market policies. We present a statistical comparison of employment and unemployment in the two …
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