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North Korea : the last transition economy?

Koen, Vincent; Beom, Jinwoan - 2020

The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...

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Informal employment in Russia : definitions, incidence, determinants and labour market segmentation

Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2013

This paper takes stock of informal employment in Russia analysing its incidence and determinants. Using the regular … segmentation in Russia when estimating an informal-formal wage gap for salaried workers at the mean. The results of quantile … upper rationed tier. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/russia). …

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Statistical profiling in public employment services : an international comparison

Desiere, Sam; Langenbucher, Kristine; Struyven, Ludo - 2019

Profiling tools help to deliver employment services more efficiently. They can ensure that more costly, intensive services are targeted at jobseekers most at risk of becoming long term unemployed. Moreover, the detailed information on the employment barriers facing jobseekers obtained through...

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Lost and found? : the cost of job loss in France

Nafilyan, Vahé - 2016

Combining the longitudinal dimension and the retrospective calendar of the French Labour Force Survey (2003-2011), we analyse the labour market transitions and outcomes of workers who were dismissed for economic reasons. This study analyses the re-employment patterns of displaced workers and...

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Urbanisation and household consumption in China

Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas; Ren, Qiang - 2017

This paper focusses on the link between urbanisation and consumption behaviour in China. Urbanisation is defined here as rural people moving to cities to work and migrant workers in cities obtaining urban residential status, against the backdrop of government plans to settle 100 million rural...

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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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How did immigrants fare in the Irish labour market over the Great Recession?

Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2016

This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this relationship has evolved since the downturn. We find that the employment penalty suffered by immigrant workers, relative to native workers, increased significantly over the Irish...

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Labour market transitions in Italy : job separation, re-employment and policy implications

Jin, Yosuke; Fukahori, Ryotaro; Morgavi, Hermes - 2016

Italy’s low employment rate is associated with adverse labour market dynamics characterised differently across different categories of people. Both job separation and re-employment have remained less frequent in Italy, especially among older workers, against the backdrop of rigid employment...

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Measuring labour market security and assessing its implications for individual well-being

Hijzen, Alexander; Menyhert, Balint - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the labour market security dimension of the OECD’s job quality framework, thereby complementing the analysis in Chapter 3 of the OECD Employment Outlook 2014 and Chapter 5 of the OECD Employment Outlook 2015. It makes three main contributions....

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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area

Gómez Salvador, Ramón; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - 2008

can make a positive contribution to the smooth transition of young persons fromeducation to the labour market by providing …

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