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International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004

Belgium has effected a remarkable fiscal adjustment, best illustrated by the decline in its public debt. While benefiting from an appreciable decline in interest rates, most of the underlying consolidation reflected a considerable increase in the tax burden, one of the highest in the...

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FLEXICURITY AS A FORWARD-LOOKING MODEL: EVIDENCE FROM NMS-12

Festic, Mejra; Romih, Dejan - In: Journal of Applied Economic Sciences 2 (2007) 1(2)_Fall2007

The abstract should summarize the content and conclusions of the paper in less 200 words (Typically around 10 sentences). It should not contain any references or displayed equations. Typeset the abstract in 10 points, italic. Labour market in the NMS is extensive and expanding. Sound...

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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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Labour market active programmes in poland in 2005-2009

Dolny, Edward - In: Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Ekonomia 42 (2011), pp. 129-150

The aim of this paper is to show quantity and structure spending from Labour Fund for labour market programmes, number and structure unemployed under these programmes and their effectiveness in Poland in 2005-2009. In this period there was a significant increase in spending from Labour Fund for...

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Les politiques de l'emploi en Europe : le modèle de l'activation et de la flexicurité face à la crise.

Erhel, Christine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010

The economic downturn in 2007 has led to a very spectacular rise in unemployment in some countries, especially concentrated among low educated and young men. Facing this new context, the reactions of labour market policies seem ambiguous. On the one hand, institutional reforms and in work...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Politics: The Swedish Model

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1995

Sweden is home to remarkably many large, prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of … have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while impeding foreign direct investment in sweden. A particularly … opposed foreign investment in Sweden. The paper outlines the development of Swedish foreign investment policies, describes the …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Politics: The Swedish Model

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Sweden is home to a remarkably large number of prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of … regulations and controls have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while impeding foreign direct investment in Sweden … investment abroad, but opposed foreign investment in Sweden. This paper outlines the development of Swedish foreign investment …

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FROM CENTER STAGE TO BIT PLAYER: TRADE UNIONS AND THE BRITISH ECONOMY

WRIGHT, CHRIS F.; BROWN, WILLIAM - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 59 (2014) 04, pp. 1450030-1

Over the past 30 years, British unions have been marginalised from economic policymaking. Union membership and collective bargaining coverage have fallen dramatically, and the sometimes negative economic impact of unions at the workplace level has disappeared. While strong unions were once key...

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Die Bedeutung des Bevölkerungsrückganges für Arbeitsmarkt, Wirtschaft und Politik

Klauder, Wolfgang - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 13 (1980) 4, pp. 485-497

. (2) Wirtschaft und Arbeitsmarkt werden im wesentlichen erst nach 1990 betroffen. Zumindest bis 1990 besteht durch das … der Gefahr einer anhaltenden merklichen Diskrepanz zwischen Angebot und Nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt. Vermutlich …

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Jahr 1981 (insgesamt und regional)

Bach, Hans-Uwe; Brinkmann, Christian; Kohler, Hans; … - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 14 (1981) 1, pp. 51-58

"Im Jahr 1980 fand - wie erwartet - der moderate Aufschwung der späten siebziger Jahre sein Ende, am Arbeitsmarkt …

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