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Impact of Labor Market Institutions on Unemployment : Results from a Global Panel
Vandenberg, Paul - 2010
Policies and programs designed to protect workers may, paradoxically, have a negative impact on labor as a whole by increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds that the unemployment rate is affected by the...
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Post-crisis changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria
Syarova, Elka - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 2 (2015) 2, pp. 59-73
the relation between changes in employment and educational structure of the labor force in Bulgaria, which took place … recovery of the Bulgarian economy in view of the noticeable trends in the educational structure of employment in the period … with the trends being developed in other European countries in terms of the post-crisis employment of various educational …
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
shows that growing import competition from China differentially reduced earnings and employment rates for workers in more … largest for lower-skilled individuals. We show that domestic manufacturing employment declined much more in countries that saw …
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Unemployment in the European Union : a dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs : A Labor Market Sorting View
Faia, Ester - 2020
exploiting offshoring. It implies that automation (offshoring) may reduce (raise) employment by lengthening (shortening …
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Understanding Fluctuations in the Ins and Outs of the Labor Force
Lalé, Etienne - 2014
Although the size of the labor force is nearly acyclical, worker flows between employment and unemployment on the one … paper lays out a job-search model to uncover the determinants of worker flows between employment, unemployment and …
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The Impact of Remittances on Labour Force in Bangladesh : An Empirical Analysis of Labour Participation and Employment
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Kozlov, V.V - 2020
This paper, the neoclassical model of labour supply has been used to investigate the labour force participation and the probability of being employed for the case of Bangladesh. To our knowledge, this represents one of the first detailed studies of labour force participation for Bangladesh and...
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The rise (and fall) of labour market programmes: The role of global and domestic factors
Gaston, Noel; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2004
We study the political economy of labour market policies. First, it is shown that tax and redistributive considerations lead inside workers to prefer spending on active labour market programmes to passive spending, e.g., on unemployment benefits. We also show that greater active spending may be...
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Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the receiving countries. This would also serve best the...
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Mobilität von Hochschulabsolventen in Deutschland
Haußen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 22 (2015) 2, pp. 42-50
Der demographische Wandel wird viele Bundesländer in Zukunft vor große wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen stellen, da die Abnahme der Erwerbsbevölkerung die wirtschaftliche Dynamik bremst. Dem Versuch, den Fachkräftebedarf durch verstärkte Ausbildung zu decken, sind wegen der hohen...
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