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active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …
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The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million to 3.6 million by 2008. At the same time, employment increased by 1.2 million. Most theoretical and empirical analyses of this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment...
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The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...
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There is a widespread perception among the public and policy-makers that EMU carries one-way pressures for enhanced flexibility in the labour market. We discuss the theoretical basis of this by examining four mechanisms through which the establishment of the common currency and the functioning...
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Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … formal firms across all Indian states, while FDI reform was associated with increased (reduced) formal firm employment in … reform. Furthermore, this paper highlights the continuing relevance of formal sector analysis, notwithstanding the persistent …
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This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …
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This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …
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