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The economic crisis in the early 1990s brought about a dramatic increase in unemployment and a similar decrease in … labor force participation. Unemployment declined afterwards, but stabilized at around 6-7% - more than twice as high as … before the crisis. Today, the unemployment rate is lower than the EU average, though Sweden no longer stands out in this …
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This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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The Netherlands is an example of a highly institutionalized labor market that places considerable attention on equity concerns. The government and social partners (unions and industry associations) seek to adjust labor market arrangements to meet the challenges of increased international...
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public sector units in 1991. Since then, per capita output has increased significantly, while the overall unemployment rate … unemployment remains stubbornly high, an overwhelming proportion of the labor force continues to work in the informal sector, and …
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In the early 2000s, Poland’s unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate has dropped to 5%. However, most of the net job creation has consisted of temporary jobs …
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