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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...

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The Regulation of Labor

Botero, Juan Carlos; Djankov, Simeon; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2008

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...

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Institutionalist versus distortionist views of labor market reforms : an investigation into the post-liberalized manufacturing sector in India

Bhandari, Anup Kumar; Arun Sudarsan - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 21 (2016) 41, pp. 63-72

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium

Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32

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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[Rezension] Fehn, Rainer, Der strukturell bedingte Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa : Baden-Baden, Nomos Verl.-Ges., 1997

Hannowsky, Dirk - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 6, pp. 778-780

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Der strukturell bedingte Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa : Ursachen und Lösungsansätze

Fehn, Rainer - 1997 - 1. Aufl.

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - 2022

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major reforms, which is valuable in many...

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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies

Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...

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Better harnessing talent and knowledge to boost sustainable medium-term growth in Spain

Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - 2014

Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...

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Collective Bargaining and Labour Market Regulation in Europe

Leonard, Evelyne - 2014

European Union since 1998, this article examines the contention that recent developments in collective bargaining in the member … states of the European Union represent an innovation in the joint regulation of the labour market. The notion of joint … market at the end of the 1990s in the European Union. Four types of joint regulation are identified. The first type refers to …

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