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. Lobel asks, what is the future of employment and labor law protections when reality is rapidly transforming the ways we work … and simplify the notoriously malleable classification doctrine; the second is to expand certain employment protections to …
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In December 2014, the German Federal Government adopted a draft law on the exclusive applicability of collective agreements – the so-called Tarifeinheitsgesetz. Critics see this as an unacceptable interference to the freedom of association. They point out, that despite multi-unionism you can...
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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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(unemployment generosity, tax wedge, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation, product market regulation … active labour market policies still perform poorly, both contributing to weak employment. …
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empirical studies point out that employment fluctuations have become more volatile after the reforms. This paper presents a … productivity shock causes the oscillatory behaviour of employment. Moreover, a reduction in adjustment costs amplifies fluctuations … leads to larger employment fluctuations. …
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shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …
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insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms … that part-time employment played a decisive role in the post-2003 improvement of the German labor market. …
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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 moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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This paper studies the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance using a new and unique dataset that covers the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional...
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2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether these city-level changes in … city level. We exploit unique administrative data on formal employment on different indicators for job and worker flows … GDP and formal employment were growing and informality rates were declining. In contrast, increases in enforcement of …
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