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with a loud fanfare, it was buried quietly. Did Working Nation labour market programs lead to a fall in unemployment and a … apparently lost interest in the long term unemployed: there has been a massive cutback in expenditure on labour market programs …After several months of research and consultation the previous Labor government introduced in May 1994 a set of labour …
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The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...
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analyzed. First, the impact of a particular policy (low-wage subsidies) on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare is …
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, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …
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economic and social problem. Emphasising the economics of the unemployment problem and focussing mainly on the labour market, a …s to the present. The paper addressed: the unemployment response to labour market deregulation policies over the last …Unemployment has been at unacceptable levels for at least twenty-five years and is probably Australia’s most serious …
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) studies the relation between taxes and the unemployment rate using the Mortensen and Pissarides search and matching … equilibrium theory of unemployment. The proposed quantitative model with ex-ante worker skill heterogeneity and two technology …
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reduces the chances of employment and unemployment and increases the likelihood downtime. Per capita income is positively …, motherhood, race, among others, have contributed to the exclusion of young women in the labour market. The objective of this … article is to identify the situation of young women, aged between 15 and 24 years, the labour market in Brazil 2005. Estimated …
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a lowering of employment rates and rising unemployment over the remainder of this decade. Overall, the current fiscal … employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the period covering the first two Howard administrations. This paper uses … demographic techniques to make valid comparisons over time, and hence facilitate estimates of future employment levels against …
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policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new … encouraged to stabilize themselves if hurt from globalization. This dissertation examines several labour market policies with … various incentive models of the labour market, which explain the microeconomic decisions relevant to the transitions in the …
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Workers with more education have historically experienced lower unemployment rates than workers with less education. An … analysis of recent data, however, indicates that the difference in unemployment rates by educational attainment appears to be … unemployment with the increase in unemployment increasingly smaller the more schooling received. Although the percentage point …
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