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Belgium; Selected Issues
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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Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...
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Labour market and social policy development in Poland
Golinowska, Stanislawa - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 37 (2004) 4, pp. 346-374
"The article describes (concentrates on the description of) the employment development and social problems related to labour market situation in Poland during the transition period (before the EU accession). It consists of four parts. The first gives an overview of basic tendencies in labour...
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Der sächsische Arbeitsmarkt im August 1995
Schreiber, Carsten - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 02 (1995) 05, pp. 06-10
stieg die Jugendarbeitslosigkeit gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitpunkt um 34,1 %. Es besteht weiterhin Lehrstellenmangel, der in …
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Der sächsische Arbeitsmarkt im Oktober 1995
Schreiber, Carsten; Riedel, Jürgen - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 02 (1995) 06, pp. 08-12
Die Lage auf dem sächsischen Arbeitsmarkt hat sich im Oktober 1995 etwas entspannt. Die Zahl der Erwerbslosen in Sachsen ging gegenüber September um 600 auf 291.000 Personen zurück. Allerdings liegt diese Zahl erstmals seit Juli 1994 wieder über dem Wert des jeweiligen Vorjahresmonats. Der...
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Regionale Einflussfaktoren auf die Implementation und Wirkung des Sofortprogramms zum Abbau der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit (Regional factors influencing the implementation and effect o...
Rothe, Thomas - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 34 (2001) 4, pp. 440-460
"The most important aim of the 'Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment' is undoubtedly the reduction of youth unemployment and in particular long-term unemployment among young people. In this respect one may assume that in regions with poor initial...
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Regionale Einflussfaktoren auf die Implementation und Wirkung des Sofortprogramms zum Abbau der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit (Regional factors influencing the implementation and effect o...
Rothe, Thomas - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 34 (2001) 4, pp. 440-460
"The most important aim of the 'Federal Government's immediate action programme to reduce youth unemployment' is undoubtedly the reduction of youth unemployment and in particular long-term unemployment among young people. In this respect one may assume that in regions with poor initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734088
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Duration dependence and heterogeneity in French youth unemployment durations
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1996
This paper investigates the degree in which the individual exit rate out of unemployment for young job seekers changes as a function of the elapsed unemployment duration. We use a nonparametric estimation method that is designed to be applicable to population data on outflows from different...
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Foyers in the UK and France - Comparisons and Contrasts
Lovatt, Roland; Whitehead, Christine; Levy-Vroelant, Claire - In: International Journal of Housing Policy 6 (2006) 2, pp. 151-166
understanding of French successes. France has a much longer tradition of Foyers providing accommodation and support dating back to … France mean that UK Foyers truly reflect French thinking and application of the concept. Does the French experience provide a … Foyers in the UK and France, but also upon a research programme carried out by the authors mainly for the Housing Corporation …
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Minimum wages and youth unemployment
Gorry, Aspen - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 57-75
wages can also help explain the high rates of youth unemployment in France compared to the United States. …
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