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depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …
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In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …
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children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …
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The United Kingdom employed the McKenna rule to conduct fiscal policy during World War I (WWI) and the interwar period. Named for Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915–16), the McKenna rule committed the United Kingdom to a path of debt retirement, which we show was...
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