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Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages …
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The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...
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rates of qualification and skills mismatches would boost both wages and productivity. With the possibility of more workers …
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indicate that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that on average profitability is … mainly found to raise wages beyond labour productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively … and wages – without being detrimental to firms’ gross profits. …
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employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings … suggest that services imports enhance female wages more than those of males, thereby contributing to narrow the gender wage …
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More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement....
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significant. Across all education groups, unemployment depresses subsequent wages more strongly at a higher age. However, the …
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While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...
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Spain is a highly decentralised country, making the effective implementation of national reforms dependent on regional policies. Some regional disparities are high and need to be reduced. High regional dispersion in education and job outcomes, compounded by low inter-regional mobility, emerge as...
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