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This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the … employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …
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A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as … to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true … markets. The employees are differentiated into sectoral affiliation, education, national status and part-time employment. The …
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This paper analyzes whether financial disincentives affect firm demand for disabled workers. In Germany, firms must pay a noncompliance fine if they do not meet their legal quota for disabled workers. I exploit a threshold in this quota: Firms with fewer than 40 employees are required to employ...
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...
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refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …, language proficiency, health status, years since migration, and cohort effects explain the employment gap between the refugees …
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economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is …
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The closing of tax loopholes is one important instrument for fiscal consolidation. We concentrate on the value added tax exemption of banking services in Germany. The potential tax revenue under full value added taxation cannot be estimated from national accounting data, as it is necessary to...
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