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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is … present policies continue within the European Union (EU) and its member states. In the vibrant scenario, full employment is … shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of EU member …
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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … market shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more “greening” of …
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approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of … cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution. …
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minority ; migration ; unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor market …
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active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …
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-American self-employment : a dynamic analysis of business ownership / Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang -- The employees of native and … immigrant self-employed / Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensj(c)·o -- Immigrant self-employment : does intermarriage matter … -- Dynamics and diversity : ethnic employment differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001 / Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater …
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The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...
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firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …
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, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … (carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …
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covariates are key confounders to be included inselection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …
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