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The concept of full employment is associated with diverse economic, political and social aspects. We provide a survey … of theory, empirics and policy issues related to full employment. We make a novel contribution by tying together multi …-dimensional aspects of full employment regarding definitions, theoretical perspectives, empirical measurements, policy debates and real …
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Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...
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, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This paper critically reviews and analyses existing regulations in …
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. Although it has declined lately, relative poverty remains high in international comparison and is distributed unevenly across … population groups with the elderly, people with disabilities, lone parents, the low-educated and the unemployed being …
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This paper analyses deviations from full employment in EU countries, compared with the US and the UK. We apply the … Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … 1970-2022, we find full employment episodes in selected EU countries (Germany, Sweden, Austria, Finland) during the 1970s …
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Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...
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-term employment stability among those who lost their jobs early in the pandemic in contrast to the group of the longer-term unemployed … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and … experienced lower levels of employment stability in the months following re-employment. …
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