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Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle

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

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people 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...

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Access to social benefits : reducing non-take-up

Dubois, Hans; Ludwinek, Anna - 2015

Many people in Europe do not receive the social benefits to which they are entitled. This is the case across countries and for many types of benefits. Addressing this ‘non-take-up’ of benefits is critical for two key reasons: benefits do not fulfil their objective if they do not reach the...

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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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Industrial relations and working conditions developments in Europe 2013

Aumayr-Pintar, Christine; Cabrita, Jorge; Curtarelli, … - 2015

This report describes the main developments in industrial relations and working conditions in 2013 in the 28 EU Member States and in Norway, from both a national and EU-level perspective. Beginning with an overview of the current economic and political context in these countries, the report goes...

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Structures of Education, Vocational Training and Adult Education Systems in Europe : The Netherlands ; 2003

Education Information Network in the EuropeanUnion; Eurydice - 2003

Structures of education, vocational training and adult education systems in Europe For anyone trying to understand the general organisation of education systems in Europe, these monographs set out in some 40 pages for each country, full basic and regularly updated information on its own...

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Dietz, Egon; Kuipers, Rob; Salomons, Rob - 2000

In the second half of 1999 Statistics Netherlands carried out an ad hoc project on environment-related employment in … the Netherlands. The European Commission co-financed this project under the Community programme Environmental protection … and employment. Direct environment-related employment in the Netherlands estimated at least at 92,000 (end of 1997), which …

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