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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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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022
, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496287
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Job displacement costs of phasing out coal
Rud, Juan Pablo; Simmons, Michael; Toews, Gerhard; … - 2022
The reduction of carbon emissions will require a rapid phasing out of coal and the displacement of millions of coal miners. How much could this energy transition cost mining workers? We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term impact on displaced miners. We...
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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507179
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Job protection and mortgage conditions : evidence from Italian administrative data
Mistrulli, Paolo Emilio; Oliviero, Tommaso; Rotondi, Zeno; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206119
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Unsettled: job insecurity reduces home-ownership
Lepinteur, Anthony; Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2024 - This version: May 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014537213
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Does Active Labour Market Policy Reduce Unemployment when Search is Endogenous?
Filges, Trine; Larsen, Birthe - 2000
We analyse the effects active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have on unemployment in a union wage-setting framework … case where ALMPs increase match efficiency of the marginalized workers, and show that ALMPs may increase unemployment. …
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Social norm, the informal sector and unemployment
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2002
, unemployment and the size of the informal sector are affected by punishment policies, which has been ignored in the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142254