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We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job...
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Social expenditure in Poland appears to increase regional employment disparities. In particular, the farmers' social fund (KRUS) seems to contribute to the rising regional dispersion in the number of recipients of social transfers. This is the result of KRUS benefits being poorly related to...
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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 jobless rate has been on a clearly rising path since...
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This report examines the evidence and policy lessons that can be drawn from the findings of the fifth European Working … participation in the light of the EU’s longstanding policy pursuit of more and better jobs. The report also assesses how the EWCS is … valued by policy users and researchers, and where its further development or usage could enhance EU policy on employment and …
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The European Restructuring Monitor’s annual report for 2014 explores the rapid transformation of the public sector in Europe since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. Initially, employment expansion in the sector helped to stabilise Europe’s economy while the private sector suffered...
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The current social policy agenda of the European Union, outlined in the Commission communication of June 2000 and … European Union over the period 2006-2010 in the field of employment and social policy. The Group adopted a strategic approach …, trying to identify key ideas for social policy in an enlarged Europe and to define some major policy orientations. …
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Die AMPDatenbank hat zum Ziel, detaillierte, konsistente und vergleichbare Informationen über die Arbeitsmarktpolitiken der Mitgliedstaaten zu sammeln, die Vergleiche zwischen den verschiedenen Maßnahmen und Ländern erlauben. Die Datenbank wurde als Modul des Europäischen Systems der...
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Enlargement will provide major impulses for economic integration and new possibilities for the division of labour in the enlarged EU will offer additional opportunities for growth. At the same time, ensuring a more or less uniform regulatory framework in a single market comprising 25 or more...
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The paper studies the incentives to join a monetary union, and the incentives to reform within a monetary union and within the candidate countries, respectively. It presents some "orders of magnitude" evidence on the size and balance of the incentive effects for joining and being a member, and...
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