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reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …
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producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …
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reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …
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Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
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of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
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Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
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producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495327
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment …
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OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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