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The relation of the Greek employment policy to the European one, as it was formulated within EES and the Lisbon strategy, was a particular one. The Greek employment policy fully adopted the form, the structure and the discourse of the EES but it was only marginally influenced by the “way of...
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employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment …
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This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using Bayesian methods we find that the model does a fairly good job in replicating the data. Surprisingly, we find a large value for the worker’s bargaining power and low vacancy...
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on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …
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The desired professional insertion (placement) after training is under the influence of personal and exogenous variables. In the present paper we identify the constraints and devices that, in an interactive way, can shape and affect the professional insertion. This paper is a result of a...
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While congress debates the merits of a stimulus package of around 900 hundred billion dollars, a historical approach to the current situation suggests that the stimulus packages currently being discussed are actually far less generous than may be needed. The Congressional Budget Office projects...
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shocks temporarily increase unemployment. Positive labor demand shocks increase employment, depress unemployment, rise real … average wages, and were found to be the main determinant of variability of employment and unemployment in the short-run. In … employment and unemployment. The retrospective simulations of the model show that Baltic states and Poland were significantly …
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unemployment rates in short samples. Augmenting standard time series specifications with this indicator definitely improves out …
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seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …
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The OECD’s unemployment problem is largely concentrated among low-skilled workers. In this paper, four explanations of … low-skilled workers’ unemployment are examined: wage-setting institutions, employment regulation, globalization, and … achieve low rates of low-skilled unemployment. In contrast, investment in active labour market policies pays off in form of …
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