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Unemployment and subsequent employment stability : does labour market policy matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike; Fervers, Lukas - 2013
associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …-unemployment employment stability ; job match quality ; reemployment duration ; active labour market policy ; unemployment benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700207
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295149
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Labor regulations and European private equity
Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - 2009 - Rev.
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2021
This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318962
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Unemployment Insurance in Europe : Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317454
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Unemployment Duration and the Interactions between Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance
Pellizzari, Michele - 2005
The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level … or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068269
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Evaluating Social Investment in Disability Policy : Impact of Measures for Activation, Support, and Facilitation on Employment of Disabled Persons in 22 European Countries
Reinders Folmer, Chris; Mascini, Peter; Van der Veen, Romke - 2021
Disability policy in European countries is displaying a shift towards social investment: increasing human capital and access to the labour market. The reasoning that underlies this transition is that disabled persons would benefit from mainstream employment, but are impeded in traditional policy...
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The COVID-19 Resilience of a Continental Welfare Regime - Nowcasting the Distributional Impact of the Crisis
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal; Kyzyma, Iryna; … - 2021
We evaluate the COVID-19 resilience of a Continental welfare regime by nowcasting the implications of the shock and its associated policy responses on the distribution of household incomes. Our approach relies on a dynamic microsimulation approach that combines a household income generation...
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The roots of low European employment : family culture?
Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...
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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries
Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016
This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...
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