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but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
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-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our re-sults show that agency employment is even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973722
but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141747
Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …
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Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties … were also in place during the 1970s and 1980s where high and persistent unemployment was prevalent. Labour market …
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unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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Labour market reforms have been undertaken to eliminate labour market rigidities in European countries since 1970s. The important features of the reforms are the reduction in adjustment costs and the introduction of fixed-term contracts (FTC). Some empirical studies point out that employment...
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, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. -- Unemployment ; youth …
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