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Precarious Employment in British Columbia : Effects, Economic Indicators, and Policy Responses

Sagmoen, Erik - 2020

This report provides an introduction to the concept of precarious employment and summarizes empirical findings in the Canadian literature. Precarious workers have poor physical and mental health, delay forming relationships and starting families, are often underemployed and isolated from their...

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Examining Eurozone crisis and unemployment relationship using VAR models

Dapontas, Dimitrios - In: Analele ştiinţifice ale Univerşităţii Alexandru … 60 (2013) 2, pp. 241-248

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A reform agenda for improving the delivery of ALMPs in the MENA region

Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Leon-Solano, Rene A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

Given the labor market challenges that countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are facing (notably … high unemployment, prevalence of skills mismatches, low labor market mobility, and lack of formal employment networks …), Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) could be a relevant policy instrument to assist unemployed individuals find jobs. This …

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Impacts of tax and firing costs on size of the informal sector and unemployment

Dell' Anno, Roberto; Solomon, Helen Offiong - In: The journal of developing areas 50 (2016) 4, pp. 423-442

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How Does Employment Protection Legislation Affect Unemployment in Tunisia? a Search Equilibrium Approach

Fanizza, Domenico; Koranchelian, Taline - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper applies a search matching model with firing restrictions to examine whether the existence of firing restrictions affects the outcome of the matching process and the natural rate of unemployment in Tunisia. The paper concludes that the removal of firing restrictions is likely to...

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Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis

Furceri, Davide; Crivelli, Ernesto; Toujas-Bernate, Joël - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural policies aimed at increasing labor and product market flexibility and …

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Unemployment in administrative data using survey data as a benchmark

Lafuente, Cristina - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 2, pp. 115-153

Social security administrative data are increasingly becoming available in many countries. These data have a long panel structure (large N, large T) and allow for the measurement of many different variables with high accuracy. It also captures short-term unemployment spells which are normally...

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Moving towards a single labour contract : pros, cons and mixed feelings

Lepage-Saucier, Nicolas; Schleich, Juliette; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013

This paper discusses the pros and cons of a single labour contract. After reviewing the current state of dualism in labour markets and the recent labour reforms in Europe, we discuss the various proposals to eliminate dualism. Next, we emphasise the costs of dualism and discuss whether they...

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Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs : Evidence from Job Vacancy Data

Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020

by a desire to reduce labor costs; we find that a large and unexpected change to the minimum wage led to a 7 percentage …

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Unemployment in administrative data using survey data as a benchmark

Lafuente, Cristina - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 2, pp. 115-153

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240611

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