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Industrial decline and restructuring in the transition economies presents a prime example of the relationship between changes in aggregate economic indicators and underlying microeconomic adjustments. This paper employs matched labor force survey data to focus on the magnitude and determinants...
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Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the … particularly affected by the crisis. Although Germany’s experience is in stark contrast to the United States, we identify and … discuss common challenges at the center of the future jobs debate. -- economic crisis ; Germany ; short-time work …
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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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Frauen in Partnerschaften sind in Deutschland immer häufiger berufstätig. Ihr Beitrag zum gemeinsamen Verdienst lag im …In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent …, 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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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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We test the hypothesis that exits from the labor market for pre-retirement individuals in Spain respond mainly to economic conditions and to incentives by analyzing two effects. First, we test the existence of spillover effects from a reform of the old-age pension system on transitions from...
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