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empirically-proven to help regain employment; this will require systematic and rigorous evaluation of labour-market programmes and …
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nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …
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In this paper we assume that firms and unions bargain efficiently on wages and employment, whereas work effort is …
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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
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We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
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higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general …
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It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
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higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind … the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271987
students. Unemployment is high and the school-to-job transition process does not work well. Spending on education and active … disadvantaged pupils. Developing work-based vocational education would also facilitate the transition from school to work. This …>Investir efficacement dans l´éducation et dans les politiques actives du marché du travail en Slovaquie<BR>En Slovaquie, les résultats …
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impact on the employment situation but, in relation with the fall of the production, the observed destructions of jobs were … layoffs. Lastly, they could reduce volume of internal employment, but with less serious consequences for the stable contract … same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …
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