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employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline … 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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second one is an employment model, where the goal of estimation is the probability that an economically active person will … become employed. The last model is a hired hand employment model, which is focused on the probability that an employed person …
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The crises of the past few years have led to a significant increase in youth unemployment in Europe. This, in turn, has … highlighted the long-standing phenomenon of well above average youth unemployment. In some countries, the youth unemployment rate … reached unprecedented levels, although the rise of unemployment among young people was no more significant than among adults …
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Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being … conditions in terms of labor market flexibility, generosity of the unemployment benefits system, child care policies, and … barriers to start and operate a business. In this paper we analyze if the different institutional environment and employment …
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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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Die Klagen über einen alsbald eintretenden Mangel an Ingenieuren in Deutschland ebben nicht ab. Jüngst hat der Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) erklärt, dass wegen des hohen Durchschnittsalters der in Deutschland tätigen Ingenieure (50 bis 51 Jahre) ein enormer Ersatzbedarf entstehen werde....
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regression using the information of the Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment from 2nd quarter of 2007 to the 2 …, jobs and residence characteristics are analyzed on the probability of having a fixed-term employment versus permanent … employment. It is analyzed concretely by branch of activity, to check which are the characteristics that would make it possible …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search … assistance, and job training. -- behavioral economics ; unemployment insurance ; job training ; job search …
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We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non … largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and … other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …
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