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Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition of people on the Polish labor market : hidden threats
Węgrzyn, Grażyna - In: International journal of management and economics 59 (2023) 2, pp. 168-179
market between employment, unemployment, and professional inactivity. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a severe drop in the …
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Enforcement of labor regulations and job flows : evidence from Brazilian cities
Abras, Ana; Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro; Corseuil, … - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 24, pp. 1-19
The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and 2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether these city-level changes in labor inspections could be a significant factor...
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Who's hit hardest? : the persistence of the employment shock by the COVID-19 crisis
Han, Joseph - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 43 (2021) 2, pp. 23-51
The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into persistent and transitory components using the observed...
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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity
Osune, Victoria - 2014
This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
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An assessment of the social work program in Turkey in terms of labour market experience and professional skill attainment
Arpat, Bulent; Namal, Mete Kaan; Kocanci, Mustafa; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 23 (2021) 57, pp. 548-569
higher education institutions cannot create adequate value in the market and in turn which causes the youth unemployment to …, in which students work at public institutions during their university education to gain experience, professional skills … become prominent as an active and robust workplace policy in fighting youth unemployment. …
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A lockdown index to assess the economic impact of the coronavirus
Faber, Marius; Ghisletta, Andrea; Schmidheiny, Kurt - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/11, pp. 1-23
test the explanatory power of the lockdown index for short-time work and unemployment increases by canton and industry …
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...
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Gender effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Swiss labor market
Dubois, Corinne; Lambertini, Luisa; Wu, Yu - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the pandemic, but we find that women were more likely to uptake short-time work …
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Measuring employment and unemployment : should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?
Brandolini, Andrea; Viviano, Eliana - 2018
Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892434
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Long term non-employment : a comparative exploration on Italy, Germany and Spain, is it a lifetime disease?
Contini, Bruno; García Peréz, José Ignacio; Pusch, Toralf - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 36 (2020) 2, pp. 229-257
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