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Réduction du temps de travail, coût du travail, chômage et inégalités : une revue de la littérature
Gilles, Fabrice - Centre d'Études des Politiques Économiques (EPEE), … - 2007
L’objectif de ce document est de donner un aperçu des effets théoriques attendus d’une baisse de la durée du travail sur le chômage et les inégalités. Il s’appuie sur une littérature qui va des modèles statiques de demandes de travail à un facteur — les services du travail —...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640903
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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266534
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FISCAL POLICY, EMPLOYMENT AND GROWTH: WHY IS CONTINENTAL EUROPE LAGGING BEHIND?
DHONT, T.; HEYLEN, F. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2004
productive government expenditures on employment and long-run growth. Our theoretical model builds on Barro (JPE, 1990) which we … basically observe in the data: (i) higher growth and employment in the US (low taxes and low transfers related to structural non-employment …), (ii) higher growth and employment in Scandinavia (high taxes, but high productive expenditures and low transfers related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004983092
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More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States
Sherman, Matt - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
This paper looks at the problem of state budget shortfalls during the recession and calculates the number of jobs that would be lost (nationally and by state) if states utilize pro-cyclical spending cuts in an attempt to balance their budgets. This is an update to an earlier paper from December...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545832
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Cut Loose: State and Local Layoffs of Public Employees in the Current Recession
Sherman, Matt; Lane, Nathan - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
In the current recession, millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Unemployment has increased nationwide to levels not witnessed since the 1980s. This issue brief tallies more than 110,000 jobs that have been shed from state and local governments in the last two years and breaks them down by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545834
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The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
Baker, Dean; Deutsch, Rivka - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
This report shows that the $787 billion included in the 2009 ARRA will not have as much of an immediate effect on the economy as initially anticipated. After subtracting the annual AMT patch and acounting for state level spending and tax cuts, the full effect of federal stimulus will equal a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999573
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Long-term responses to large minimum wage shocks : sub-minimum and super-minimum workers in Slovenia
Laporšek, Suzana; Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Matija; … - 2019
sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977607
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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413675
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When short-time work works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
of other employment policies. …
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Employer characteristics and youth employment outcomes in the formal sector in South Africa : assessment using administrative tax data
Ngandu, Stewart; Chisadza, Carolyn - 2018
employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …
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