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The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
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by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly …
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skilltraining programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance, and...
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In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the …, unemployment rises. More generally, we show that skill-biased technological change leads to increasing unemployment of the … inequality and unemployment under different social benefits regimes: Analyzing the social legislation in 14 countries, we find …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
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While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …
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endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …
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This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, the Swedish part of the International Adult Literacy Survey, we are able to analyze changes in literacy skills for individuals as a...
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