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inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …
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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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High employment growth has sustained Israel’s high GDP growth in recent decades, but demographic change and labour market duality put future growth at risk. Policy action is required to stimulate employment and raise labour productivity, especially among population groups with weaker labour...
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, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …
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This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … raise temporarily natives' unemployment, over a period of approximately five to ten years. Anticompetitive product market … protection legislation magnifies its persistence, and a higher average replacement rate of unemployment benefits increases its …
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the need for unemployment insurance. It is also an opportunity to boost digitalisation and innovate with smart practices …
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retirement schemes than their Scandinavian counterparts. To restrict their use, extended unemployment benefit, which is paid to … unemployed persons aged 61 or more after normal unemployment benefit expires until they retire or reach 65, should be phased out …
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While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for …. Measures to improve mobility of workers across regions, notably housing policy reform, would lower long unemployment durations …
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Over the past decade, labour market outcomes have improved in India, with net employment rising markedly for the economy as a whole. However, these gains have arisen primarily in the unorganized and informal sectors of the economy, where productivity and wages are generally much lower than in...
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Women have contributed a great deal to Ireland's economic growth, including by joining the labour force in large numbers. The rise in female participation since 1990 has been amongst the strongest in the OECD, but from a low base. Female participation rates remain below the OECD average for all...
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