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-term unemployment rates, leading to the need to reform labour market institutions and make them more flexible. Flexible labour markets … employment and unemployment) but also to reduce the negative impacts on labour market of structural shocks. If we focus on the …, the countries with the best results in terms of unemployment and employment would have been those that had a more flexible …
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the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio …
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We discuss the ease with which individuals can move between employment, unemployment and inactivity over time in the EU …. Transitions from unemployment and inactivity back into employment are relatively weak in Central Eastern, Mediterranean and …
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This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …
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The persistence of the employment shock by COVID-19 has various policy implications during the pandemic and beyond it. After evaluating the impact of the health crisis at the individual level, this study decomposes employment losses into persistent and transitory components using the observed...
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support measures, in the short term, the Romanian labour market is facing the unemployment rate increase, at least in 2020, as …
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depreciation upon job loss—and its interaction with labor market institutions. We have three main results, based on a life … between turbulence and institutions explains most of the reduction in labor force participation among older workers in Europe … over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in …
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The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …
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; Europe ; US ; institutions in the labour and product market …
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On top of the sovereign debt crisis in the European Union, demographic change is exerting enormous pressure on public finances. We analyse four policy options: lowering pension benefits, increasing labour market participation of the native population, immigration and participation of older...
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