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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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Legislative implementation of European social partner agreements: Challenges and debates
Tricart, Jean-Paul - 2019
This Working Paper analyses the development of the interpretation that the European Commission has given to the TFEU provision concerning mechanisms for extensions of collective agreements. The paper examines how the Commission has reinterpreted these provision and the challenges this poses for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565880
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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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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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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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A European social semester? The European pillar of social rights in practice
Hacker, Björn - 2019
Following its proclamation in 2017, the European Pillar of Social Rights was used by the Commission for the first time in the 2017/18 European Semester. However, much of the potential of its Social Scoreboard to spotlight social shortcomings in the EU remains untapped. Member States are showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565867
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281027
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Exclusion, Marginalization and Peripheralization: Conceptual concerns in the study of urban inequalities
Bernt, Matthias; Colini, Laura - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405692