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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …

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Part-time work in EU countries: labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2005

This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...

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Waiting for recovery: The Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....

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Female labor market transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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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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Echoes of the crises in Spain and US in the Colombian labor market : a differences-in-differences approach

Arango Thomas, Luis Eduardo; Mata, Dolores de la; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 4, pp. 441-477

This paper presents evidence of the effect of the recent phases of the business cycle in Spain and United States, proxied by their respective unemployment rates, on the labor market of Colombian cities with high migration tradition. These countries are the main destination for Colombian labor...

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Labour market performance by age groups : a focus on France

Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - 2013

This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age-specific unemployment rates to the economic...

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Economic crises and the added worker effect in the Turkish labor market

Değirmenci, Serkan; Ilkkaracan, İpek - 2013

Turkish economic growth has been characterized by periodic crises since financial liberalization reforms were enacted in the early 1990s. Given the phenomenally low female labor force participation rate in Turkey (one of the lowest in the world) and the limited scope of the country's...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

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