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Labour Market Reform in Germany : How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444203
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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045708
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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland
Braconier, Henrik - 2010
, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … referral to labour market activation, which contributes to high levels of inactivity and a large number of beneficiaries. This … combination risks building up greater structural unemployment over time. More ambitious activation needs to be accompanied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446965
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Coping with the Job Crisis and Preparing for Ageing: The Case of Finland
Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … referral to labour market activation, which contributes to high levels of inactivity and a large number of beneficiaries. This … combination risks building up greater structural unemployment over time. More ambitious activation needs to be accompanied by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587586
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Improving Employment Prospects for Young Workers in Spain
Wölfl, Anita - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
The unemployment rate among young people has reached painfully high levels, in particular among those young people with low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First, in the very short term, there is need for quick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276824
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Overcoming Vulnerability of Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Unemployment insurance is a key tool for risk sharing and redistribution and also a prominent automatic stabiliser. It is a volatile spending item by design, which can lead to vulnerabilities. This paper explores various shocks and sources of vulnerability of the unemployment insurance schemes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276886
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Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland
Yashiro, Naomitsu - 2021
Among various barriers to increasing employment of older workers, this paper focuses on two notable ones that are relevant for the future of work. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630425
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Boosting employment in Finland
Carey, David - 2021
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic contraction and government debt build-up, the government is formulating reforms to raise employment by 80 thousand workers by 2029. Finland’s employment rate has been lagging behind the Scandinavian Nordics, with most of the gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630454
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445638
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Assessing the OECD Jobs Strategy : Past Developments and Reforms
Brandt, Nicola - 2005
In 1994, the OECD published a set of recommendations -- known as the OECD Jobs Strategy -- to deal with high and persistent unemployment that affected many member countries. These recommendations are currently being reassessed by the OECD and this paper contributes to this process. It provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446613