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The Nordic experience revisited: labour market booms and slumps since the 1990s in Finland and Sweden
Pehkonen, Jaakko; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) January, pp. 52-65
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their recent labour market booms and slumps. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical models of Karanassou et al., we conduct dynamic simulation exercises and explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610869
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Incentives for Women to Work: A Comparison between The Netherlands, Sweden and West Germany
Gustafsson, S.S.; Bruyn-Hundt, M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) October, pp. 30-65
Compares the way women are taxed in the Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands by looking at both macro and micro data … favours one-earner couples. Completely separate taxation (as in Sweden) is a major incentive for couples to be dual-earner. In … without introducing the positive effects seen in Sweden. Tax incentives are not the only determinant of women's participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459552
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The Nordic experience revisited: labour market booms and slumps since the 1990s in Finland and Sweden
Pehkonen, Jaakko; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) 1, pp. 52-65
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their recent labour market booms and slumps. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical models of Karanassou et al. , we conduct dynamic simulation exercises and explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863270
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Incentives for Women to Work: A Comparison between The Netherlands, Sweden and West Germany
Gustafsson, S.S.; Bruyn‐Hundt, M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) 5/6
Compares the way women are taxed in the Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands by looking at both macro and micro data … favours one‐earner couples. Completely separate taxation (as in Sweden) is a major incentive for couples to be dual‐earner. In … without introducing the positive effects seen in Sweden. Tax incentives are not the only determinant of women′s participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863858
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Employment and unemployment duration in less developed regions
Theodossiou, Ioannis; Zarotiadis, Grigoris - In: Journal of Economic Studies 37 (2010) September, pp. 505-524
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of labor market experience among the unemployed in a less developed area in Greece (the north-western region of Epirus), where unemployment has severe detrimental repercussions on the local workforce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610864
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Employment and unemployment duration in less developed regions
Theodossiou, Ioannis; Zarotiadis, Grigoris - In: Journal of Economic Studies 37 (2010) 5, pp. 505-524
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of labor market experience among the unemployed in a less developed area in Greece (the north‐western region of Epirus), where unemployment has severe detrimental repercussions on the local workforce....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863257
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Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations
Rosner, Menachem; Putterman, Louis - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) January, pp. 18-41
An economic framework for understanding the incidence of less alienating job designs in varying industrial settings is developed. Both the supply and demand sides are discussed, and the approach is illustrated by consideration of the frequency of introduction of alienation-reducing job designs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459566
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Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations
Rosner, Menachem; Putterman, Louis - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) 1
An economic framework for understanding the incidence of less alienating job designs in varying industrial settings is developed. Both the supply and demand sides are discussed, and the approach is illustrated by consideration of the frequency of introduction of alienation‐reducing job designs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014863391
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Are recessions harmful to health after all?: Evidence from the European Union
Economou, Athina; Nikolaou, Agelike; Theodossiou, Ioannis - In: Journal of Economic Studies 35 (2008) October, pp. 368-384
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of national unemployment rates on overall age and cause-specific mortality rates in a panel sample of 13 European Union countries. Design/methodology/approach – A fixed-effects model is used to control for unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081192
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Nonlinear stationarity of real interest rates in the EMU countries
Zhou, Su - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) November, pp. 691-702
Purpose – This paper aims to examine two hypotheses that have not been well investigated in the existing literature. One hypothesis is that the real interest rates of industrial countries tend to be mean-reverting during the current floating exchange rate period. Another hypothesis is that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610880