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The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …
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Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
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vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …
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Die Finanzlage der Bundesagentur für Arbeit hat sich in den Jahren 2006 und 2007 deutlich verbessert. Neben der wirtschaftlichen Aufwärtsentwicklung haben dazu verschiedene Arbeitsmarktreformen beigetragen. Über die Verwendung der Überschüsse und der angesammelten Rücklage wird heftig...
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turn increasing employment and the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and hours. …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …
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This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We … construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in … relationship between industry-level employment and output. Our empirical results align with the predictions of the theory and …
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full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …
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continuing vocational training (CVT) on employment, the risk of unemployment, and wages. To control for education, profession and … reemployed and higher chances to stay into an existing employment. The results also indicate that repeated short activities in … CVT are more beneficial then long activities typically carried out by the German employment agency during the period of …
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