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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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Global employment trends for women : brief, March 2007
International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations; … - 2007
Focuses on whether the tendency towards increased women's participation in labour markets has continued more recently … and whether women have found enough decent and productive jobs to really enable them to use their potential in the labour …, including: labour force participation; unemployment; sector and status of employment; wages/earnings; and education and skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967633
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768647
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment?
Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604960
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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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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea’s youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …
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Crime and European labour market policy
Ochsen, Carsten - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2005
In this paper we investigate the effects of labour market policy on several types of criminal offences for fifteen European countries. The main results are the following: Firstly, the results change markedly if we control for unobserved heterogeneity. In the context of criminal offences the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958228
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The EU labour market crisis and recovery policies. The Bulgarian response to the crisis
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current study analyzes the status of both the European and the Bulgarian labor markets from the standpoint of the effects of the current crisis, which has affected the supply and demand of labor as well as the employment structure. It further examines the anti-crisis policies, which have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322632
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Trade and Labor Market Outcomes
Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral … reductions in labor market frictions increase a country's welfare, can raise or reduce its unemployment rate, yet always hurt the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643563
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004
The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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