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aims, the flexicurity concept is increasingly considered and employed as a key strategic framework. Flexicurity itself may … employment, and between job and retirement. We propose a possible assessment of the perormances of the flexicurity policies by … using certain composite indicators that allow for a multidimensional appraisal of flexicurity in the EU countries, providing …
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In this paper I evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3-6 percentage points of the firm's wage sum in Northern and Eastern Finland. I estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction on firms' employment, wage sum and profits, and on workers hourly pay and...
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This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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Social partners have different visions about flexicurity both conceptual point of view and of some the eventual … mechanisms of implementing this concept. They have in mind the implementation of flexicurity only in their interest area, some of … strengthening security for workers. The present paper adds some new elements to the existing research on flexicurity by exploring …
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This study evaluates a regional full employment initiative using the synthetic control method introduced by Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003). The aim of the Paltamo Full Employment (PFE) experiment launched in 2009 is to reverse the trend of high and persistent unemployment in contracting regions....
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The paper uses the theoretical framework of the Spatial Economics to analyze (1) the regional unemployment disparities in Spain for males and females in three different age categories and for economic sector. We use administrative regional aggregate data to explore the distribution of the...
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Comprehensive evidence has shown that unemployment can have adverse effects on an individuals' mental and physical health condition. However little is known about the side effects of governmental policies that aim to promote the unemployed's reintegration into the labor market on the health...
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