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Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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The debate about the massive influx of refugees into Germany often focuses solely on the short-term costs. But while …
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Der starke Zustrom von Flüchtlingen heizt die Diskussionen in Deutschland an. Dabei wird oft nur auf kurzfristige … Impulse für Deutschland die Kosten übertreffen. Wenngleich offenkundig noch detailliertere Studien erforderlich sind, um die …, ob die Flüchtlinge langfristig einen wirtschaftlichen Nutzen für Deutschland bedeuten, sondern lediglich, wie schnell die …
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Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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To hire new workers, employers use a variety of recruiting methods in addition to posting a vacancy announcement. The intensity with which employers use these alternative methods can vary widely with a firm’s performance and with the business cycle. In fact, persistently low recruiting...
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Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment …-effective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …
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One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This … paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …
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adjustment somewhere in the system except for inflation rate. Unemployment took the burden of adjustment when the bond rate sky … about internal and external transmission mechanisms that ultimately caused unemployment to increase rapidly over this period … the crisis. The authors find that the strongly increasing real bond rate and unemployment rate together with an …
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of the individual is high compared to the bargaining power of the union, there is more unemployment with individual wage … vacancy is sufficiently high, there is more unemployment with individual wage setting. Finally, for a constant marginal … bargaining produces more unemployment. …
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