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According to the National Household Survey (ENAHO), approximately three out of four employment relationships within the formal sector of the Peruvian economy are based on temporary contracts. This percentage is larger than that of any OECD country and also considerably larger to that of any...
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the transitions from unemployment to paid employment, own-account work, and …
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About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...
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employment and unemployment over the business cycle are more uncertain. Exploitation of partial reforms and the use of micro data … in recent research appear not to have affected results regarding employment and unemployment in any systematic way …
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employment and unemployment over the business cycle are more uncertain. Exploitation of partial reforms and the use of micro data … in recent research appear not to have affected results regarding employment and unemployment in any systematic way …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104107
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … unemployment are primarily resulting from structural differences in labor policy and in the (vocational) education system, any …
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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a “lost generation” may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … unemployment primarily result from structural differences in labor policy and in the (vocational) education system, short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209725
A reduction in employment protection is expected to encourage both job creation and job destruction. To estimate these two effects independently, this article exploits a change in the Italian employment protection legislation, approved in 2012, which impacted firms differently depending on their...
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