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It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper analyses whether this is the case when considering the most recent economic downturn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. By using UK data, it finds that unemployment has...
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We use firm-level data from 10 European countries to establish several new stylized facts about firms’ labor market power. First, we find the pervasive presence of labor market power across countries and sectors, measured by average and median markdowns above unity. Second, focusing on the...
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Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...
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In order to capture the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market, several aspects need to be taken into account. First, containment measures put in place in member states at different times and with different levels of severity determined the interruption of several economic...
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countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The …
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We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using … substantially both across countries and across different groups of women. We explore such heterogeneity in trends by looking at the … effects of policies and labour market institutional factors on the participation of women with different family and individual …
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We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using … participation for young women, and more than 30% for highly educated women. The effects of labor market reforms on the participation … of low skilled women in the labor force are instead surprisingly small. We also find that reforms of the institutional …
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for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force … countries. As more women now are in the labor force the interest in the use child care and housework of husband have grown. We … European countries. The results show that while Mediterranean countries have advanced in the incorporation of women into the …
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To achieve the employment target set in the Europe 2020 Strategy is necessary that women's potential and talent to be … used optimally. Increasing employment for both men and women is the main way to achieve autonomy, financial independence … analyses undertaken shows that in the last ten years activity and employment rates of women in Romania had a slightly …
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