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Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however … problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. I apply this method to a panel data set that covers 17 … indicators are identified as significant determinants of unemployment. Endogeneity due to reverse causality is also considered by …
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combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. The proposal addresses the shortcomings of most other reform designs which do not offer a solution for insolvent or noncooperative euro countries. We suggest a design which combines fiscal insurance with an orderly procedure to...
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We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …
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In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how … drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put …
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Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
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relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …
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We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...
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