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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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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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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 investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or …, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for employment rates that contrast those based on unemployment rates. In … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …
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This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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A central tenet of economic sociology is that culture and regulatory institutions help to constitute the nature of economic actors and guide their actions, thus affecting economic outcomes (see, e.g., DiMaggio, 1994; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). As socially organised agents operating in different...
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In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...
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In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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