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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment in OECD Countries
Nickell, Stephen - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 13-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048487
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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons ; the European unemployment problem
Solow, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 3-5
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013167
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European Unemployment: Labour Market Institutions and Economic Turbulence
Ljungqvist, Lars - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 07-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594376
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Europe's unemployment : no policy issue, a policy issue for Europe or for member states or for both? ; the European unemployment problem
Steinherr, Alfred - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 6-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998619
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Long-term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden: Shipyard workers in the west and miners in the north
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) April, pp. 514-538
focus is on the individuals affected by the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985 and the cutbacks at … the LKAB mines in northern Sweden in 1983. Design/methodology/approach – These workers not only experienced job loss, but … were also target groups for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market …
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Flexicurity as a Policy Agenda
Auer, Peter; Gazier, Bernard - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 4, pp. 3-8
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment rates in the business sector in the 1990s, after controlling for many institutions, country-specific effects, and economic variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to...
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The Nordic experience revisited: labour market booms and slumps since the 1990s in Finland and Sweden
Pehkonen, Jaakko; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) January, pp. 52-65
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their recent labour market booms and slumps. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical models of Karanassou et al., we conduct dynamic simulation exercises and explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610869
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Employment and unemployment duration in less developed regions
Theodossiou, Ioannis; Zarotiadis, Grigoris - In: Journal of Economic Studies 37 (2010) September, pp. 505-524
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of labor market experience among the unemployed in a less developed area in Greece (the north-western region of Epirus), where unemployment has severe detrimental repercussions on the local workforce....
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The heterogeneity and cyclical sensitivity of unemployment : and exploration of German labour market flows ; the European unemployment problem
Schmidt, Christoph - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 17-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013082