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There have been concerns that employment-enhancing reforms along the lines of the 1994 OECD Jobs Strategy could … employment have in general offset the impact of rising wage dispersion. A preliminary econometric analysis for the period 1978 …
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evil. Two other issues that have often been sidelined are Lack of Regular employment (Underemployment or Semi …-Open Unemployment SOU), and Lack of Adequate Returns from jobs (incidence of poverty among more or less regular workers or Non-Employment …
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I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...
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Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable, they often use models of job search, but we argue...
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In 2002, Argentina implemented a large-scale public employment program to deal with the latest economic crisis and the … empowerment through work. -- Argentina ; Jefes y Jefas ; Public Employment ; Women …
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A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
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employment and especially in low-wage employment. As non-standard forms of employment proliferated, growing proportions of … employment critically depend on pay levels and overall job quality, as our own analyses confirm for the case of men's life … satisfaction. The welfare gains achieved by Germany's recent reforms may therefore be smaller than suggested by employment rates …
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In 2002, Argentina implemented a large-scale public employment program to deal with the latest economic crisis and the …
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Latin America experienced six years of sustained growth from 2003-2008. The high rate of economic growth over these years, before the 2008-2009 crisis, positively impacted social and labour market indicators. Evidence of these positive impacts can be seen in the form of job creation...
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A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054924