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Employment protection and labour productivity growth in the EU : skill-specific effects during and after the Great Recession
Fedotenkov, Igor; Kvedaras, Virmantas; … - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 51 (2024) 1, pp. 209-262
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Productivity growth in decline despite increasing workforce qualifications
Brenke, Karl - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 33, pp. 277-286
After developing at an increasingly slower pace over the decades, labor productivity in Germany has recently stagnated. This is in contrast to the development of the workforce’s qualifications, which have been growing steadily due to rapid academicization. These phenomena can be found in other...
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Job loss by wage level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
after controlling for a range of individual characteristics including gender, age, education, labour market history, part …
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Job loss by wage level : lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
after controlling for a range of individual characteristics including gender, age, education, labour market history, part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660129
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Working Smarter: Education and Productivity
Sweetman, Arthur - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
achieved through a better understanding of the relationship between the skills developed through formal education and their …Skills, innovation and human capital as they feature prominently on the policy agenda of industrialized countries … concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most …
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Educational attainment in Australia
Tunny, Gene - In: Economic Roundup (2006) 2, pp. 1-9
Australians have increased their educational attainment over the past few decades, essentially catching up with their peers in the rest of the OECD. Although older Australians have lower upper secondary attainment, the educational attainment of young Australians is similar to the OECD average....
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Why did unemployment respond so differently to the global financial crisis across countries? Insights from Okun's Law
Cazes, Sandrine; Verick, Sher; Hussami, Fares Al - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The global financial crisis deeply impacted labour markets around the globe. In the case of the United States, some commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment rate with respect to output growth, a...
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Why did unemployment respond so differently to the global financial crisis across countries? : insights from Okun’s Law
Cazes, Sandrine; Verick, Sher Singh; Al-Hussami, Fares - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
The global financial crisis deeply impacted labour markets around the globe. In the case of the United States, some commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment rate with respect to output growth, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010205770
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ROMANIA - PORTUGAL: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TWO COUNTRIESâ€(tm) LABOUR MARKETS
Cristina, DIMIAN Gina; Mihai, DIMIAN - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 282-288
Our choice was justified by the fact that between the two countries exist some features that make them interesting to study from the employment point of view. Thus, both countries are Latin and this is why we consider they are comparable, because employment means people, more precisely...
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Self-employment, educational attainment and employment protection legislation
Baumann, Florian; Brändle, Tobias - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 846-859
We analyse how educational attainment and employment protection influence an individual's decision to become self-employed. By altering expected income from dependent employment, employment protection is likely to affect an individual's choice of occupation, although such a link has not been...
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