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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … workplaces further flexibility to adapt collective agreements to specific circumstances would help align wage growth with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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Human capital, the labour market and productivity growth in Ireland
Bergin, Adele (contributor); Kearney, Ide (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002637073
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The role of labour market expectations and admission probabilities in students' application decisions on higher education : the case of Hungary
Varga, Júlia - 2003
This paper analyses the effects of labour market expectations and admission probabilities on students' application strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their choices, a function of expected net lifetime earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521985
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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015
This study examines the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria to gain insights into the country …'s paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition … approach, complemented with econometric estimation of the country's employment intensity of growth. The findings indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405514
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Labour Reallocation and Productivity Dynamics : Financial Causes, Real Consequences
Borio, Claudio E. V. - 2016
We investigate the link between credit booms, productivity growth, labour reallocations and financial crises in a … undermine productivity growth by inducing labour reallocations towards lower productivity growth sectors. A temporarily bloated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002127
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Bullying at school and labour market outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754885
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Human capital dynamics and the U.S. labor market
Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - 2014
The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors influencing either the demand side or the supply side of the labor market. However, no matter what factors have caused the changes in the unemployment rate, these factors should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010240062
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Misallocation and inequality
Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170860
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Sorting Between and Within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
Abowd, John M. - 2015
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032926
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262019