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The paper surveys the main trends of per capita income convergence in the European Union. It stresses that income disparities have ceased to diminish across the European regions since 1980, although convergence between countries has continued in this period. Income levels have diverged inside...
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special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability …
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special system of unemployment assistance. The majority of the non-employed, including those aged 15-59, receive disability …. -- unemployment ; inactivity ; job search ; registration …
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probabilities from it to unemployment and to other economic branches / occupations are both about half of the corresponding …. -- labour market of the public sector ; labour market transition probabilities ; unemployment duration ; Jenkins discrete time …
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groups. If the rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values … during the transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios unemployment differentials are basically determined by the … unemployment benefits and provision of direct support to the employers of low-productivity workers. -- Unemployment Models …
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We model the formation of teams as a random matching process influenced by the agents’ preferences for team size and gender composition. We test hypotheses regarding gender and team preferences on the patterns of coauthorship in articles published 1991-2002 in three top economic journals. We...
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This paper carries out an explanatory investigation into the relationship between socio-institutional conditions, quality of life indicators and economic growth in the Italian regions. Previous studies stress the importance of institutional quality, social capital and social conditions in...
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The study was prepared in the framework of the "Priority Project TÁMOP - 2.3.2-09/1: Establishing labour market forecasts and foreseeing structural changes". It presents a comprehensive overview of labour market forecasting activities, mostly quantitative, based on multi-sector models, in 12...
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The study presents a comprehensive overview of labour market forecasting activities, mostly quantitative, based on multi-sector models, in 12 countries and the European Union. The principal aim of this effort is to provide ideas, lessons and benchmarks for similar forecasting exercises in...
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Learning-by-doing and government spending are well-known engines of long-term economic growth. These growth engines’ interaction has not been analysed to the best of our knowledge. This paper aims at filling that perceived gap by combining Matsuyama [1992] and Barro’s [1990] approaches....
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