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The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...
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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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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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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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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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In the early days of transition Poland hosted regional earning disparities. Low levels of worker and firm mobility … speed of transition examining employment restructuring in labor demand. The local shortterm unemployment (excessive layoffs …
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This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …
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This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most … developing countries, mobility has been quite high. The purpose of this paper is to apply a binomial probit model and split … unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical …
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This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban … the comparable international evidence. We also find that intergenerational educational mobility is lower for the younger … cohorts, which however does not necessarily imply an increase of intergenerational educational mobility in the last decades …
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of household members working in the labor market. -- income distribution ; income mobility …
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