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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...
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The current study analyzes the status of both the European and the Bulgarian labor markets from the standpoint of the effects of the current crisis, which has affected the supply and demand of labor as well as the employment structure. It further examines the anti-crisis policies, which have...
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, leading to the emergence of Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. We illustrate the relevance of this new concept of … unemployment to the U.S economy in the first decade of the 21st Century. This helps achieve a deeper understanding of the current …
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be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …
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Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …
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The International Accounting Standards Committee issued the the International Accounting Standard 19, Employee Benefits. The objective of IAS 19 is to is to prescribe the accounting and disclosure for employee benefits (that is, all forms of consideration given by an enterprise in exchange for...
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One important and under-researched aspect of labour market policy is the extent to which policy interventions are effective in modifying job search behaviour. Furthermore, there is little extant research on whether certain job search behaviours lead to labour market success. Our analysis uses...
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employment and labor force participation, and by increasing unemployment to rates unseen in Romania. The Romanian government soon … Completion of employees’ incomes (I11) was on the efficiency frontier, along with Vocational training (I7). Unemployment …
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changes in employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labour market policies. Data on the strictness … insiders. Although gross unemployment replacement rates suggest that unemployment benefits have become more generous, net …
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In this paper, we assess the effects of the Italian labour market reforms which began in 2001 and which led to widespread deployment of temporary work contracts. Using a hitherto unexploited administrative dataset of work histories for the period 2003-2010, we estimate transition probabilities...
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