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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2009
In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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Economic reforms, labour markets and formal sector employment : evidence from India
Shembavnekar, Nihar - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/31, pp. 1-42
shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …
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Lost in Transition: The Costs and Consequences of Sectoral Labour Adjustment
Tapp, Stephen - 2007
production to the resource sector and away from manufacturing. The model quantitatively captures both the sectoral employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940756
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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs
Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...
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Reassessing labour market reforms : a critique
Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - 2014
This paper provides a critique of Faccini (2014) that allegedly shows that temporary contracts lead to lower unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse when we make slight alterations in the sample size or...
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Faces of joblessness : characterising employment barriers to inform policy
Fernández, Rodrigo; Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; … - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent … that governments use when designing and implementing activation and employment-support policies. In particular, it aims to … provide individual and household perspectives on employment problems, which may be missed when relying on common labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476564
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Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2013
points and reduce output by about 1 percent, reflecting both lower employment and lower productivity, which is the result of …
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Unemployment in Bolivia : Risks and Labor Market Policies
Hernani, Werner L. - 2012
temporary employment programs. Such programs, however, may have helped to smooth consumption. Given the country's high level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112753
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Faces of Joblessness : Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
Fernandez, Rodrigo - 2016
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent … that governments use when designing and implementing activation and employment-support policies. In particular, it aims to … provide individual and household perspectives on employment problems, which may be missed when relying on common labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990856
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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage : from pre-crisis to crisis and recovery
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - 2021
During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...
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