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Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Trabandt, Mathias; Walentin, Karl - 2010

without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our … model has the property that people searching for jobs are better off if they find a job than if they do not (i …

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Wage setting and wage flexibility in Ireland

Keeney, Mary; Lawless, Martina - 2010

This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. We place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are...

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Sector-level bargaining and possibilities for deviations at company level : Austria

Bispinck, Reinhard; Schulten, Thorsten - 2011

The legal basis of collective bargaining in Austria is laid down by the Labour Constitution Act (ArbVG). According to the ArbVG, collective agreements can be concluded only between collective organisations of employers and employees. Therefore, the Austrian labour law systematically benefits...

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Sector-level bargaining and possibilities for deviations at company level : Belgium

Keune, Maarten - Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies, … - 2011

The Belgian collective bargaining system is highly institutionalised and coordinated. Over 90% of employees are covered by a collective agreement, placing Belgium among the countries with the highest coverage in Europe. Also, the Belgian trade unions have a relatively high level of membership...

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Sector-level bargaining and possibilities for deviations at company level : Spain

Ramos-Martín, Nuria - Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies, … - 2011

The right to collective bargaining and the binding character of collective agreements is enshrined in the Spanish Constitution (Section 37.1). The system of collective bargaining is thoroughly regulated in Title III of the Workers’ Statute. In particular, Section 82.3 establishes the legally...

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Minimum wages in Europe : Background paper

Hurley, John - 2007

on 12 September 2007 in Brussels on the "Role of the minimum wage/minimum income for social inclusion in the EU". The … developments in minimum wage/minimum income provision at Member State level. It also aims to outline the perspectives of the social …

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Towards an European minimum income

Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2015

This study examines whether it would be appropriate to introduce a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) at European level …

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Developments in working life in Europe : EurWORK annual review 2014

Aumayr-Pintar, Christine; Böhmer, Simon; Bremermann, … - 2015

Developments in Working Life in Europe 2014 is part of a series of annual reviews published by Eurofound and provides an overview of the latest developments in industrial relations and working conditions across the European Union and Norway. The Annual Review collates information based on...

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Peer Review on "Minimum Income Benefits – securing a life in dignity, enabling access to services and integration into the labour market"

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2019

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Consumption, habit persistence, imperfect information and the lifetime budget constraint

Willman, Alpo - 2003

approach is the parameterisation of the information content regarding future income changes. In addition to the information … regarding time series properties of the historical development of labour income, consumers have also period-specific information … on future income realisations. Estimation results support the hypothesis that, although front-loaded, consumers have a …

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