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Phasing out coal: A just transition approach
Galgóczi, Béla - 2019
The clock is ticking and time is running short for us to have a realistic chance to get climate change under control and prevent it becoming irreversible and selfsustaining. Phasing out coal is widely seen as a 'low hanging fruit' of climate policy commitments in the move towards a net zero...
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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...
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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
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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"Algorithm breakers" are not a different "species": Attitudes towards trade unions of Deliveroo riders in Belgium
Vandaele, Kurt; Piasna, Agnieszka; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2019
This working paper investigates a rare case of platform work performed in the realm of regulated employment and explores the attitudes of platform workers towards collective representation. The argument is developed that workers' attitudes and their propensity to engage in collective action can...
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Counting gigs: How can we measure the scale of online platform work?
Piasna, Agnieszka - 2020
well as rising unemployment and the financial strain on many workers, platform work may resume its rapid growth. Therefore …
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The Two Waves of Service-Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry; Gupta, Poonam - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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Has India emerged? Business cycle stylized facts from a transitioning economy
Ghate, Chetan; Pandey, Radhika; Patnaik, Ila - 2012
This paper presents a comprehensive set of stylised facts for business cycles in India from 1950-2010. We show that most macroeconomic variables are less volatile in the post reform period, even though the volatility of macroeconomic variables is still high and similar to other emerging market...
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Structural change and the Kaldor facts in a growth model with relative price and non-Gorman preferences
Boppart, Timo - 2011
Growth of per-capita income is associated with (i) significant shifts in the sectoral economic structure, (ii) systematic changes in relative prices and (iii) the Kaldor facts. Moreover, (iv) cross-sectional data shows systematic expenditure structure difference between rich and poor households....
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Multivariate methods for monitoring structural change
Groen, Jan J. J.; Kapetanios, George; Price, Simon - 2010
Detection of structural change is a critical empirical activity, but continuous 'monitoring' of series, for structural changes in real time, raises well-known econometric issues that have been explored in a single series context. If multiple series co-break then it is possible that simultaneous...
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Structural change and growth in India
Cortuk, Orcan; Singh, Nirvikar - 2010
This paper examines the link between structural change and growth in India. It constructs indices of structural change, and performs a time series analysis of the data. It finds that 1988 marks a break in the time series of growth and structural change. There is one-way causality from structural...
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