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How to Cope with Labour Market Policy Tools in Economic Downturn: Finnish Evidence

Räisänen, Heikki - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2003

This paper discusses the Finnish experiences of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) across the economic cycle, especially in economic downturn. Cuts in unemployment spell duration have been the main factors to contribute in decreasing the unemployment in the recent years. Subsidised employment...

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Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from coauthorship patterns.

Boschini, Anne; Sjögren, Anna - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2004

women increases, allows us to reject gender neutrality in team formation in favour of an hypothesis stating that the … gender composition. We test hypotheses regarding gender and team preferences on the patterns of coauthorship in articles … coauthor increases with the proportion of female authorships in the field. This, together increases with the finding that women …

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Why Do Central Banks Push for Structural Reforms? The Case of a Reform in the Labor Market

Aguiar, Álvaro; Ribeiro, Ana Paula - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2008

In spite of being mainly concerned with stabilization policies, central banks in many developed countries often advocate the necessity of structural reforms. In turn, demand-side policies - such as monetary policy - can often help improving the political support of reforms (two-handed-approach)....

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Wage Compression and Welfare in Sweden

Lindquist, Matthew J. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2000

This paper calculates the quantitative significance of the welfare effects of wage compression in Sweden. This is done in a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations where agents choose both schooling (human capital) and assets (physical capital). This paper shows that when...

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