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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996 - 2002

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...

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Asset pricing, habit memory, and the labor market

Jaccard, Ivan - 2010

This article studies the asset pricing and the business cycle implications of habit formation in a production economy with capital adjustment costs and endogenous labor supply. A specification of internal habit in the mix of consumption and leisure which minimizes the wealth effect on labor...

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The response of labour taxation to changes in government debt

Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine; … - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between government debt and labour taxation for a panel of 18 EU countries over the period 1979-2008. The econometric estimates point to a statistically significant and economically relevant positive response of labour taxation to changes in the general...

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The pension reform challenge in Turkey

Verbeken, Dirk - 2007

Turkey is currently introducing a comprehensive pension reform, which aims at unifying the currently disperse system and reducing the significant - and rapidly growing – social security deficit from 4.8% of GDP in 2005 to less than 1% of GDP by 2035. The cumulative value of the deficits over...

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Unemployment in Austria: low, but…

Sherwood. Monika - 2006

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

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Structural unemployment: a blot on the Finnish success story

Maiväli, Mart - 2006

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …

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High unemployment in Poland - not only a labour market problem

Narożny, Michał - 2006

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Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession

Hurley, John; Storrie, Donald; Jungblut, Jean-Marie - 2011

[...] this report will show the value of the jobs approach in analysing the changing structure of employment in the two turbulent years of the Great Recession.

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Shifts in the job structure in Europe during the Great Recession : Technical background paper

Hurley, John; Storrie, Donald; Jungblut, Jean-Marie - 2011

The report describes the impact of the ‘great recession’ on employment and the job structure in the EU27. Quintile charts are used to give a simple, graphical representation of the extent of employment change in a given period as well as an indication of how that change has been distributed...

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European restructuring monitor quarterly - Issue 4, winter 2009

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010

trend rates. Unemployment notably continues to rise and its pace of increase has accelerated in the most recent quarter to …

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