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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268008
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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763619
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Asymmetric labor force participation decisions over the business cycle: Evidence from US microdata
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Robertson, John C. - 2006
unemployment rates. Using U.S. data, we find that individual labor force participation responds asymmetrically to changes in local … labor market conditions, consistent with the pattern of movements in the aggregate unemployment rate. Differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292322
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Des hommes malades du chômage ? Genre et (ré-)assignation identitaire au Royaume-Uni
Angeloff, Tania - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in Britain. Initiated at the beginning of the 1980s, the Incapacity Benefit (IB) social welfare system perceived and treated these recipients as « disabled adults ». This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073699
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Labour Market Performance by Age Groups: A Focus on France
Boulhol, Hervé; Sicari, Patrizio - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
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 cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …’s total unemployment rate differential with best-performing countries. Youth unemployment rate is especially sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276961
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Determinants of youth unemployment in Uganda: The role of gender, education, residence, and age
Egessa, Abel; Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Muwanga, James - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29
Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553716
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Determinants of youth unemployment in Uganda : the role of gender, education, residence, and age
Egessa, Abel; Nnyanzi, John Bosco; Muwanga, James - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-29
Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650464
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Age and productivity: Sector differences?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In most industrialised countries, the workforce is ageing rapidly. If ageing workforces affect sectors differently, the total impact of ageing will depend on the industrial structure of an economy. This paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity...
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Specific Measures for Older Employees and Late Career Employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2012
We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762072
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SILVER ECONOMY IN EU – LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES OF LABOUR FORCE STRUCTURE
PREDESCU, Antoniu; POPESCU, Maria-Loredana - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 5 (2014) 1, pp. 25-31
This paper is focused on circumscribing in what manner labour force structure, as distinct economic factor, will influence, in next decades, process of building up a silver economy in EU. For this, we use statistical data, put to use so as to generate a proper prognosis of future increase in...
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