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consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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consistent with firms utilizing part-time work to adjust their labor force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …
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PTR across countries are significantly affected by policy and institutions. In particular policy measures geared toward … legal framework directly affecting part-time positions and the creation of financial incentives (subsidies and improvement … of social protection) to take up a part-time job. Moreover, other labour market institutions, including benefit systems …
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This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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involve wage subsidies together with improved job matching; and earned income tax credits that supplement wages for working …
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the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. -- Institutions ; incentives ; reforms …
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that involve wage subsidies together with improved job matching; and earned income tax credits that supplement wages for …
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To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...
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In the employment increase of 12 million of the European Union the number of part time employees accounted for nearly 6 million between 2000 and 2006. A great number of countries try to support the distribution of part-time employment in order to raise or maintain the level of employment and to...
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