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Ageing and skills : the case of literacy skills

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019

The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD...

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Unemployment insurance in theory and practice

Holmlund, Bertil - 1997

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The consequences of labour market flexibility : panel evidence based on survey data

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 1999

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Labour market performance and start-up costs : OECD evidence

López-García, Paloma - 2003

This paper is intended to make a contribution to the empirical literature explaining the rise of unemployment since the 1970s in western economies by means of interactions between shocks and institutions. The contribution is twofold. First, the impact of a general feature of developed economies...

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Chapter 18 Job reallocation, employment fluctuations and unemployment

Mortensen, Dale T.; Pissarides, Christopher A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1171-1228). 1999

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it reviews the model of search and matching equilibrium and derives the … to the explanation of differences in unemployment rates in industrialized countries. The search and matching model is … built on the assumptions of a time-consuming matching technology that determines the rate of job creation given the …

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Do unemployment benefits and employment protection influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature, our results suggest that...

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

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The consequences of labour market flexibility : panel evidence based on survey data

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 1999

We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984-90. The data are based on surveys of business people in the countries covered, so the indices we use are subjective in nature. Controlling for country and time fixed effects, and using dynamic...

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Labour market performance and start-up costs : OECD evidence

López-García, Paloma - 2003

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Unemployment insurance in theory and practice

Holmlund, Bertil - 1997 - This version: 8 October 1997

A hallmark of modern labor economics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New theoretical approaches, in particular job-search theory, have...

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