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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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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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The article assesses the direct and indirect impact of a major redundancy on local unemployment. The extent of these … workers displaced other labour market participants from work; and (2) that self‐employment assisted the process of labour … market adjustment and, therefore, reduced both the direct and indirect effects of the redundancy on unemployment. The data …
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unemployed. It uses the same criteria set to get the sample to assess their own re‐employment prospects. It concludes that … although training and retraining programmes may be a ecessary condition to enhance the re‐employment prospects of the …
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informal sector has grown. Problems such as underemployment, an unqualified young population and the growth of the informal … more active employment policies are urgently needed in the country, they are left off the agenda. However, realistic …
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unemployed in a local area, over a two‐year period during which the unemployment rate fell by 40 per cent. The databases used …
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during the 1970s, youth minimum wages were lowered in the 1980s, in response to the large increase of youth unemployment …. Analyses the employment effects of lowering youth minimum wages. Looks at macro and micro evidence. At the macro level, does … not find convincing evidence of negative effects of youth minimum wages on youth employment. Constructs a micro model in …
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Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.
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Considers the relative effectiveness of using experimental training programmes. Uses the US experience of programme evaluation to make two main points. First, many of the key questions concerning the effects of training cannot be answered using simple estimators, even in the presence of...
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