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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...
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This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...
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This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia (all in all 52,000). Our results show that job creation and job destruction rates have been rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318344
This paper reviews empirical research on finance and labour markets. Preliminary themes in the literature follow. Finance may interact with labour market institutions to jointly determine labour outcomes. Highly leveraged firms show greater employment volatility during cyclical fluctuations, and...
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In this paper we document and analyze gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria …
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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the … make work pay. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Poland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-poland.htm). …
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-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM … wage distribution, which supports the hypothesis of the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland … in Poland: informal workers in the first quartile of the wage distribution and those above the first quartile appear to …
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-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM … wage distribution, which supports the hypothesis of the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland … in Poland: informal workers in the first quartile of the wage distribution and those above the first quartile appear to …
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, Poland, and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … Poland …
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Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to a trade shock when factor adjustment is costly. Available methods to estimate those costs rely on panel data, which are seldom available in developing countries. In this paper, we propose a method to...
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