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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 4 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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Price Liberalization and Output Decline in Transition
Polanec, Saso - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004
In this paper, we attempt to fill the gap in theoretical explanations of a large output decline that took place in the early years of transition process. The prevalent explanations, commonly found under the title of disorganisation, are succesful in explaining output decline in countries of...
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Beschäftigungschancen für Geringqualifizierte nach wie vor schlecht
Grundig, Beate; Weyh, Antje; Sujata, Uwe - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 13 (2006) 06, pp. 30-35
In zahlreichen Studien wurde bisher gezeigt, dass insbesondere zwei Gruppen von Personen stark von Arbeitslosigkeit … akademische Ausbildung am ehesten vor Arbeitslosigkeit schützt. Diese Unterschiede zeigen sich in allen Regionen Sachsens sowie in …
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Reformkonzepte zur Erhöhung der Beschäftigung im Niedriglohnbereich: Ein Überblick
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Meister, Wolfgang; Ochel, Wolfgang; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 03-20
Nachdem das ifo Institut im Mai des Jahres 2002 seine Studie zur Aktivierenden Sozialhilfe vorgestellt hatte, wurde in Deutschland eine Diskussion zu den Möglichkeiten einer aktivierenden Sozialpolitik zum Zwecke der Entwicklung des Niedriglohnsektors geführt. Am Beginn der Diskussion standen...
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Workfare – praktikabel und gerecht
Bonin, Holger; Falk, Armin; Schneider, Hilmar - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 60 (2007) 04, pp. 33-37
Dieses Modell stellt das Niveau des Arbeitslosengeldes II nicht in Frage, macht aber seine Gewährung von einer Gegenleistung in Form von Workfare (d.h. öffentlich organisierter Vollzeitbeschäftigung) abhängig. Wer das Workfare-Angebot nicht annimmt, muss aber auf sein Arbeitslosengeld II...
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Review Article on The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 69-78
This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...
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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations
Kaplan, Greg; Menzio, Guido - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2013
expectations equilibria. Equilibria di¤er with respect to the agents?(rational) expectations about future unemployment. We show … that negative shocks to the agents?expectations lead to ?uctuations in vacancies, unemployment, labor productivity and the …
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Unemployment Insurance with Moral Hazard in a Dynamic Economy.
Wang, C.; Williamson, S. - Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business - 1995
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