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Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market policies (ALMPs) are shown to have raised employment … variables. Among such policies, direct subsidies to job creation were the most effective. ALMPs also affected employment rates …
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impact of foreign workers on unemployment, labour force participation and part-time employment in Cyprus, using data from the … Cyprus. Part-time employment seems to be marginally affected overall. On the other hand, the presence of foreign workers … affects the probability of unemployment, labour force participation and part-time employment of some age and education groups. …
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The composition of the nursing and caring workforce in Australia has changed substantially over the last 15 years. The workforce has an older age profile, works shorter hours and employs substantially more carers. In spite of the ageing of the population and a substantial increase in the number...
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In many European countries, re-employment probabilities of older unemployed workers are relatively low. While there is …-year re-employment probability of eligible older men with about 5 % point, while the reduction in PBD has caused the one …-year re-employment probability of eligible men to increase with 3 % point. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York …
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without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of Social Code III). In light of the political goal of an increased labour … recipients usually must be available for employment; therefore questions about their inclination to work, their readiness to … be less relevant with FRB payment recipients, who are legally entitled to cease seeking employment. The empirical …
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This paper examines how unemployment late in workers' careers affects the timing of their retirement. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation from 1996 to 2011, we document that unemployed workers permanently leave the labor force at a significantly higher rate than...
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without having to seek new employment (Section 428 of Social Code III). In light of the political goal of an increased labour … recipients usually must be available for employment; therefore questions about their inclination to work, their readiness to … be less relevant with FRB payment recipients, who are legally entitled to cease seeking employment. The empirical …
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This Selected Issues paper illustrates the recent evolution in Belgian housing prices. Belgian housing prices peaked at the end of 2013 after a persistent increase that was almost continuous for 30 years. The stabilization of prices, combined with policy changes on the fiscal and...
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contribution in the explanation of unemployment persistence in Belgium, besides that of observed and unobserved characteristics. …
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">1992</CitationRef>) methodology and evaluate how the Spanish labour market reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases …
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