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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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for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …
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This paper reviews important aspects of gender labour market inequalities in four European Union countries. It shows that individual countries differ in many aspects of gender discrimination. It seems that contributing factors to these differences are the national social and economic structures,...
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langer Zeit bestehende Phänomen der weit über dem Durchschnitt liegenden Arbeitslosigkeit der Jugendlichen deutlicher … Ausbildung vorliegt, weisen Jugendliche eine viel höhere Arbeitslosigkeit auf als Erwachsene. In solchen Ländern allerdings, in … dem Durchschnitt liegende Arbeitslosigkeit der Jugendlichen allein auf Qualifizierungsdefizite zurückgeführt werden …
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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 … also characterised by high flows into and out of employment, implying that most unemployment spells are rather short and …
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Youth unemployment in Germany has fallen to its lowest level since German reunification. Between 2005 and 2012 …, unemployment among under 25 year olds has more than halved. By international standards, Germany is in an exceptionally good … position. Nowhere in Europe is youth unemployment lower. However, this is not so much due to structural improvements or …
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; unemployment ; labor market institutions ; internal flexibility …
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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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dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries …. -- unemployment dynamics ; structural multi-equation models ; chain reaction theory ; simulations ; PIGS …
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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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