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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266534
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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models: A demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387261
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Reduction
Schor, Juliet - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294577
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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321523
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321617
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A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden
Hallberg, Daniel - 2003
unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321633
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the …
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The Effect of Emigration on Unemployment: Evidence from the Central and Eastern European EU Member States
Pryymachenko, Yana; Fregert, Klas; Andersson, Fredrik N. G. - 2011
European (CEE) members of European Union (EU) during the period 2000 to 2007 has contributed to the decline in unemployment … decade, emigration indeed had a strong negative effect on unemployment in these countries. A 10 per cent increase in … emigration rate leads to around 5 per cent decrease in unemployment rate. Given the minor effect of immigration on host countries …
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Mismatch unemployment in Austria: The role of regional labour markets for skills
Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021
the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …
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