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The path through : early COVID-19 job loss and labour market trajectories in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2024

the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …

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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU

Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024

This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...

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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies

Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024

unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …

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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015

are collective dismissal, fixed term contracts, contract labour, trade unions and unemployment insurance. Although the …

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...

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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016

The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...

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The effect of increasing the state pension age to 66 on labour market activity

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; O’Brien, Laurence - 2022

We study the effect of an increase in the UK state pension age from 65 to 66, a high level internationally, on labour market activity. Despite there being limited financial incentives to retire at the state pension age, we find large effects: the employment rate of 65-year-olds increased by 7.4...

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Do labor market regulations affect the link between innovation and employment? : evidence from Latin America

Baensch, Laura; Lanzalot, Maria Laura; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2018

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate the model developed by Harrison et al. (2014) using...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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