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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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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?
Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360503
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: The German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273931
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317937
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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Huitfeldt, Henrik - 2001
This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321748
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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries
Scarpetta, Stefano - 1998
differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327008
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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010
previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321440
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30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Ursachen für Konvergenz und Divergenz zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland
Schnabl, Gunther; Sepp, Tim - 2019
eine Konvergenz der Wirtschaftskraft in Ostdeutschland abgeleitet. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107378