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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country with lax employment protection legislation, generous … unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. This model has coped with the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic …, avoiding large increases in long-term and structural unemployment. The recovery from Covid-19 alongside re-openings has been …
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paper takes a closer look at the labour market consequences of the crisis for Denmark. It is found that employment … job-separation counter-cyclical. As a consequence most unemployment spells remain short. This is critical since a … persistent increase in unemployment will affect the financial balance of the model severely. Comparative evidence does not …
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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country characterized by lax employment protection legislation …, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the … unemployment. Most unemployment spells were short, muting the effects on long-term and youth unemployment. Recent reforms boosted …
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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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low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a … employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social …
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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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This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …
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This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance … search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment, and idiosyncratic as well as aggregate labor market risk. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595828