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This study measures, on a representative sample of employees in the banking sector (N=428), the prevalence of 18 work condition factors which may have an influence on the levels of stress and insecurity. The analysis then points out the relationship between these two latter factors and 16 health...
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lower structural rate of unemployment. We es- tablish this fact using: (i) panel data from 20 OECD countries, (ii) cross … within-country trade. Our main finding is robust to various definitions of unemployment rates and openness measures. The … preferred specification suggests that a 10 percent increase in total trade openness reduces unemployment by about one percentage …
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, supported employment and direct job creation measures show the most favourable results, both, in terms of reduced unemployment … reducing unemployment than other ALMP policies. Moreover, the positive effects seem to be particularly beneficial for the low …
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available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …
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This paper estimates a stylized search and matching model on data for Australia covering the period 1978-2008. Using Bayesian methods we find that the model does a fairly good job in replicating the data. Surprisingly, we find a large value for the worker’s bargaining power and low vacancy...
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performance, we apply a gross flow analysis based on EU-SILC longitudinal data. While in Spain increases in youth unemployment … uniformly, also to the job-finding rates. Survival functions estimates point to prolonged unemployment duration and increasing … long term unemployment, while both these tendencies apply relatively more to the young unemployed. Proportional hazard …
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What is the relative importance of hiring and separation in driving unemployment fluctuations? This paper presents a … framework to decompose the moments of unemployment and study the respective contributions of vacancy posting, a measure of firms …’ hiring efforts, and separation. Separation accounts for about 40% of unemployment's variance, compared to 60% for vacancy …
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unemployment fluctuations. Our main findings are as follows: i) around 85% the employment–unemployment gross flows involve … unemployment rate; iii) almost 80% of the unemployment rate volatility – explained by movements between unemployment and employment … to understanding the unemployment volatility and the functioning of the Spanish labor market. …
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The objective of the work consists in analyzing the phenomenon of unemployment, a phenomenon which is becoming more and … assessing the unemployment of the Hunedoara county level. The main purpose is carrying out a comparative study of the number of …
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This paper analyzes rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment for Turkey since 2006. The average rate of exiting … unemployment (outflow) within a month is 9.4 percent, while the average rate of transiting from employment to unemployment (inflow … significantly across groups. The paper decomposes changes in unemployment into contributions from inflow and outflow rates and finds …
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