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The German labor market after the Great Recession : successful reforms and future challenges

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...

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How quickly does structural reform pay off? : an empirical analysis of the short-term effects of unemployment benefit reform

Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-12

While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit insurance on steady-state employment, the short-term effects of benefit reforms are not well-established. This paper contributes to fill this gap by estimating impulse responses to...

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Labor market conditions and self-employment : a Denmark-Spain comparison

Carrasco, Raquel; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-16

Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being the difference specially relevant among women. These two countries present important differences in their labor market conditions in terms of labor market flexibility,...

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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy : Romania in early transition

Earle, John S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

affected by both individual and firm characteristics. Among other results, university and general high school education tend to …, but not to agriculture. Workers with primary and vocational education have the highest probability of becoming unemployed … education). Compared with workers in state-owned companies, workers from the private sector, especially from enterprises of …

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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We find large positive post-programme effects, and,...

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The dynamics of the labor markets in Chile

Lima, Víctor O.; Paredes, Ricardo D. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 163-183

Through flows from 3 states, employment, unemployment and out of the labor force, we analyze the dynamics of labor markets in Chile from 1962-2007. We identify some periods of different labor market regimes and relate them with changes in flexibility. We found that reforms such as that of 1967,...

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Mindestlohn im Bauhauptgewerbe : Beschäftigungseffekte nicht nachweisbar

Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 47, pp. 16-21

Die Debatte um einen allgemeinen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn in Deutschland hält an. Mittlerweile sind die branchenbezogenen Mindestlöhne umfassend evaluiert worden. In diesem Beitrag werden die empirischen Untersuchungen zu den Lohn- und Beschäftigungswirkungen des Mindestlohnes im deutschen...

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Active labour market policies in a recession

Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We consider these issues with outset in Denmark which is a country...

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29

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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