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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251397
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Fear of labor rigidities : the role of expectations on employment growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo; Yamada, Gustavo - 2015
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427816
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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
coming to employers instead of the latter seeking them out and (2) the larger set of potential employees would increase the … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … employers to think of new ways in which labor can be used. An increase in the number of entrants to the labor force would lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104064
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Fear of Labor Rigidities : The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru
Lavado, Pablo - 2016
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but equally important channel: expectations. This paper aims to analyze the role of expectations on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001881
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What is the value of foreign work experience? : analysing online CV data in Slovakia
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016
This paper studies how attractive young returnees are in the labour market and how they behave relative to stayers. We use the online CVs of young people that are posted on the major Slovak job-search portal. The analysis is performed using a set of regression models that investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458966
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799098
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Understanding the Labour Market for Older Workers : A Survey
Heywood, John S. - 2009
employers choosy about hiring the old. The advent of quot;age discriminationquot; law reinforces employment protection and may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764652
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The use of fixed-term contracts and the labour adjustment in Belgium
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Mahy, Benoit - 2009
This paper aims to document and analyse the use of fixed-term contracts (FTC) and to analyse the dynamics of labour adjustment by type of labour contract at the firm level, drawing on the detailed breakdown of both the labour force and labour entries and exits that are available in the "Belgian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506689
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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from International Industry-Level Data
Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775793