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other industrial sectors, in agriculture, and in services, as well as unemployment and non-participation in the labor force … present a mixed picture of social dislocation and improved reallocation. -- unemployment ; sectoral shifts ; reallocation …
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economic growth in the future. -- unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor supply ; benefit systems ; public policy …
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; unemployment ; labor market institutions ; internal flexibility …
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This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...
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While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …
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unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these … countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self …-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by …
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This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use recent survey data from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a difference-in-difference approach to assess the impact of the policy on labor migration decision. We find a...
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and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …
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other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …
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The Danish model won fame for its performance during the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000-years and took a position as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep...
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