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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe
Sparreboom, Theo; Tarvid, Alexander - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 1, pp. 15-42
This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...
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Health and disability insurance
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 4, pp. 349-362
Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2002
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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries
Lisi, Domenico - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 119-144
In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
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Dokumentation der Ruhestandsregelungen in verschiedenen Ländern
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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Zeitarbeit in europäischen Ländern: Lehren für Deutschland?
Vanselow, Achim; Weinkopf, Claudia - 2009
Die Porträts der Zeitarbeit in Frankreich, Niederlande, Großbritannien, Dänemark. Schweden, Schweiz und Österreich … eine Re-Regulierung der Leiharbeit. Besonders interessant erscheinen drei Elemente der Regulierung in Frankreich: die auch … Einsätzen in Hochlohnbranchen. In der Schweiz soll der 2008 abgeschlossene Branchen-Tarifvertrag für allgemeinverbindlich …
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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