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Schlusslicht Deutschland': Resultat institutioneller Verkrustungen?
Truger, Achim; Hein, Eckhard - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 83 (2003) 8, pp. 509-516
In einer radikalen Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes und tiefen Einschnitten in das System der sozialen Sicherung wird zumeist die einzige Möglichkeit gesehen, Deutschland aus seiner wirtschaftlichen „Schlusslichtposition“ zu manövrieren. Welche ökonomischen Argumente stehen hinter diesen...
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Openness, financial markets, and policies: Cross-country and dynamic patterns
Bertola, Giuseppe; Lo Prete, Anna - 2008
We document significant and robust empirical relationships in cross-country panel data between government size or social expenditure on the one hand, and trade and financial development indicators on the other. Across countries, deeper economic integration is associated with more intense...
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Benchmarking national labour market performance: A radar chart approach
Mosley, Hugh; Mayer, Antje - 1999
The radar chart approach is one of a number of special analytical tools that have been developed in connection with benchmarking in the private and public sectors. Although well established as a management tool, the radar chart approach has to our knowledge never been applied to benchmarking...
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Evaluating active labour market policies evaluations
de Koning, Jaap; Peers, Yuri - 2007
Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor. Zahlreiche Versuche wurden unternommen, um den Nettoeffekt von Reintegrationsmaßnahmen auf die individuelle … des Effekts aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik dahingehend, dass wir versuchen, Interferenzen hinsichtlich der Größe des …
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Future works: Labour, sustainable business and social responsibility
2002
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Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries
Calderón, César; Chong, Alberto; Valdés, Rodrigo - 2004
This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labor institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data...
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Lessons learned: Internationale Evaluierungsergebnisse zu Wirkungen aktiver und aktivierender Arbeitsmarktpolitik
Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2005
Arbeitsmarktpolitik (AAMP) ausgegeben, die im ursprünglichen Sinn eigentlich Investitionen darstellen sollten. Aus Ländern mit ähnlich … hohen Ausgaben für aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik - aber einer ausgeprägteren Evaluationskultur als hierzulande - gibt es … Evidenz der Wirksamkeit einer ?aktivierenden? Arbeitsmarktpolitik hoch. Die Einbeziehung von Anreizeffekten, die sich aus der …
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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration
Holzmann, Robert - 2005
The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...
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Crises, what crises?
Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2006
Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...
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Labor market policy: A comparative view on the costs and benefits of labor market flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
I review theories and evidence on labor market policies and institutions in an international context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies. Scandinavia and Central...
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