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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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Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
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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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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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This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …
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(unemployment generosity, tax wedge, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation, product market regulation …
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