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Meulders, Danièle (ed.); Plasman, Robert (ed.); … - 2004

Low-paid employment is a key issue for labour market policy. The essays in this book, focusing on European countries, provide new empirical evidence regarding the impact of minimum wages on employment, earnings mobility among low-paid workers, job satisfaction across the earnings distribution,...

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The Changing Japanese Labor Market : Theory and Evidence

Kitagawa, Akiomi; Ohta, Souichi; Teruyama, Hiroshi - 2018

1 Overview -- Part 1: Theory -- 2 Flatter Wage Profiles and Reduced Lifetime Employment: A Simple Formalization -- 3 Ranking and Long-term Unemployment in a Model with Efficiency Wages -- Part II Evidence -- 4 Testing the Dual Structure of the Japanese Labor Market -- 5 Duration Dependence of...

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Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis

Arestis, Philip (ed.); Sawyer, Malcolm (ed.) - 2017

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...

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Arbeitsmarktökonomik

Franz, Wolfgang - 2013 - 8., akt. u. erg. Aufl. 2013

I Einführung -- 1 Der Arbeitsmarkt im Überblick: Fragen an die Arbeitsmarktökonomik -- II Die Entscheidung der privaten … Diskussion -- IV Die Koordination von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt -- 6 Matching und Mobilität -- V … institutionellen Regelwerkes auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und verbunden mit wirtschafts-, insbesondere arbeitsmarktpolitischen …

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African American Men and the Labor Market during the Great Recession

Holder, Michelle - 2017

This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost...

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Economics of the Labour Market : Unemployment and the Costs of Unemployment

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2016

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues...

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The Employment Effects of Technological Change : Heterogenous Labor, Wage Inequality and Unemployment

Rubart, Jens (contributor) - 2007

This book provides an empirical and theoretical examination of the short- and medium run impacts of technological advances on the employment and wages of workers which differ in their earned educational degree. Furthermore, by introducing labor market frictions and wage setting institutions the...

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Monetary Policy and the German Unemployment Problem in Macroeconomic Models : Theory and Evidence

Gottschalk, Jan (contributor) - 2005

Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past forty years. It shows that in recent years a convergence has taken place, with modern models embodying a Keynesian transmission mechanism, monetarist policy implication, and...

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Labor Markets in Asia : Issues and Perspectives

Felipe, Jesus (ed.); Hasan, Rana (ed.) - 2006

This volume argues that while labour market reforms may be necessary in some specific cases, by no means are labour market policies the main explanation for the widespread increase in unemployment and underemployment across Asia and country specific studies undermine the case for...

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Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Strauß, Susanne - 2008

interrelations in Germany and Great Britain. On the basis of household panel data, she answers questions such as: Does job loss lead …

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