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performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that high taxes … increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter employment protection …
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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 examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the … European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of …
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How do asymmetric labor market institutions affect the volatility of innovation and unemployment differentials in a …. Positively, we find that inflation and unemployment differentials strongly depend on the underlying labor market structures …. Moreover, asymmetries in labor market structures increase the volatility of both in.ation and unemployment differentials …
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This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects individual well-being. Two … distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration on individual well-being. We find significant evidence in favor of both the … remain unemployed for a longer time. At some point, however, both the employed and unemployed adapt to unemployment at the …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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predicts the unemployment rate in the EU-28 countries using Google search data. This document is subject to updates as the …
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During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others … the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in … countries where unemployment remained high. …
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size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences between employed and unemployed using a model of labor market …
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