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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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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,...

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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 …

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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

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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 …

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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 … relatively low labor force participation of women. This created a situation where labor market reforms were unavoidable. The …

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