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market reform was launched in Estonia in 2009. The main idea of the New Employment contract was that the termination of … employment relations became less expensive for employers. Although empirical evidence show that the Employment Contracts Act …
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for the design of selected labor market policies including unemployment compensation, employment services and job search …
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long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability …
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raise non-academic skills directly through purposeful activities or indirectly as a result of other employment …
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as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most … the Danish model to sustain external chocks. Some have further argued that Danish employment will be more vulnerable to … economic downturns due to the low level of employment protection legislation (EPL). These issues are in the focus of the …
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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 …
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Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...
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This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...
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In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …
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Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...
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