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A decade of labour market reforms in the EU : insights from the LABREF database
Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - 2014
domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390074
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A decade of labour market reforms in the EU : insights from the LABREF database
Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-33
This paper analyses the main features and determinants of labour market reforms in the EU over the period of 2000 - 2011 using the European Commission LABREF database. The data suggests that the timing, focus, and geographical distribution of reforms reflect the interplay between economic shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288689
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"Shelter from the storm?" - Danish flexicurity and the crisis
Madsen, Per - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
The Danish model won fame for its performance during the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000-years and took a position as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most other European countries Denmark has now fallen into a deep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793401
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An evaluation of the workforce investment act adult program in Minnesota : lessons from the financial crisis
Bendewald, Ellen; Maryns, Nicholas; Robertson, Raymond - 2016
Using matched administrative data, this paper estimates the program effects of Minnesota's WIA Title I‐B Adult program to make two contributions to the literature. First, this paper applies a wide range of non‐experimental approaches and generates similar estimates of program effects that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518089
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What Jobs Should a Public Job Guarantee Provide? Lessons from Hyman P. Minsky
Haim, Daniel - 2021
The job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250637
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Who is hit hardest during a financial crisis? : the vulnerability of young men and women to unemployment in an economic downturn
Verick, Sher Singh - 2009
destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …. -- Unemployment ; youth unemployment ; financial crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893779
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The role of short-time work schemes during the global financial crisis and early recovery : a cross-country analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martin, Sébastien - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770782
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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups
Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011
protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and … and to what extent different socio-economic groups were affected. -- automatic stabilisers ; unemployment protection ; tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516872
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Who is Hit Hardest During a Financial Crisis? The Vulnerability of Young Men and Women to Unemployment in an Economic Downturn
Verick, Sher - 2009
destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157027
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Machine learning and causality : the impact of financial crises on growth
Tiffin, Andrew - 2019
Machine learning tools are well known for their success in prediction. But prediction is not causation, and causal discovery is at the core of most questions concerning economic policy. Recently, however, the literature has focused more on issues of causality. This paper gently introduces some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154563