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South African labour market transitions during the global financial and economic crisis: Micro-level evidence from the NIDS panel and matched QLFS cross-sections
Essers, Dennis - Instituut voor Ontwikkelingsbeleid en -beheer (IOB), … - 2013
considerable movement in South African labour markets over the crisis period. Chances of continued employment significantly vary … along gender, age and education levels and between different sorts of occupations and sectors of employment. Although we do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932116
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Getting Irish Youth on the Job Track
Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
empirically-proven to help regain employment; this will require systematic and rigorous evaluation of labour-market programmes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276859
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The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of changes in work in Portugal
Moniz, António B. - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2008
economical indicators, Employment indicators, Consumption, Technology at the workplace, Productivity), and then approaches the … situation in terms of work flexibility in its dimensions of time use and New forms of work organisation. It traces employment in … evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe. Finaly are analysed the globalisation indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005212641
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Reforming Employment Protection Legislation in France
Zhou, Jian-Ping - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
Over the last 15 years, the reforms of employment protection legislation (EPL) in European countries have mainly eased … hiring and firing restrictions for temporary employment while leaving the strict EPL provisions for regular or permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825839
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Reforming Labor and Product Markets; Some Lessons From Two Decades of Experiments in Europe
Boeri, Tito - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper evaluates European structural reforms over the last 20 years, in light of economic theory predictions about interactions between labor and product market reforms. Reforms in labor markets occur at higher frequencies than in product market, which are, however, more coherent. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826643
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Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment
Henry, Brian; Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical "natural rate of unemployment" (NRU). Our analysis suggests that the British NRU has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763790
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Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics. The Chain Reaction Approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764149
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Some Evidence on the Relevance of the Chain-reaction Theory in Selected Countries
Hofer, Helmut; Kunst, Robert M.; Schwarzbauer, Wolfgang; … - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2007
approach we decompose the dynamics of employment and labour force into transitory and permanent components. We estimated a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764218
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Is the Natural Rate a Reference Point?
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper explores the two common concepts of the natural rate of unemployment: (i) the stable, long-run equilibrium rate of unemployment; and (ii) the equilibrium unemployment rate at which there is no tendency for this rate to change, given the exogenous variables. The first concept (common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136587
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - European Central Bank - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042600