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The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities … opportunities therefore reduce local unemployment. We estimate a spatial panel model in order to explain the unemployment …
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The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
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This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …
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This paper provides a robust estimation of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment … various covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces unemployment rate. This finding is robust to …: deregulation of State controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment rate. Labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902269
Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...
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private sector would lower the unemployment rate and reduce government costs. …
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We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of …
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The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
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