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Globalization and Labor Market Institutions: International Empirical Evidence
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
A widespread concern is that labor market institutions erode in the course of globalization, which, in turn, decreases … employment and wages. By using panel data and crosssectional data, I investigate the influence of globalization on labor market … regulation. I use the indicators of labor market institutions by Gwartney et al. (2012) and the KOF indices of globalization. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312084
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Labor market institutions and the future of work: Good jobs for all?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2017
Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there are potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist in the future, how people will work and how the global division of labor will evolve. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663477
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Labor market institutions and the future of work : good jobs for all?
Eichhorst, Werner - 2017
Work and employment around the globe change continuously, but there are potentially more rapid and fundamental transformations ahead as new technologies can have major impact on what jobs will exist in the future, how people will work and how the global division of labor will evolve. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011590441
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FDI, skill-specific unemployment, and institutional spillover effects
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2012
This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital markets and Mortensen and Pissarides search frictions in the labor market. Institutional changes in the model trigger adjustments at the intensive and extensive margin of labor demand. At the extensive margin a shift of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307700
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Political instability and labor market institutions
Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the future yields of policy interventions, induce an incumbent government to choose labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282482
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Promoting youth employment in Europe: Evidence-based policy lessons
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. Based on the existing empirical evidence on different policy options, this chapter draws lessons for future policy making in order to effectively promote youth employment in Europe. In conclusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663474
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The European Youth Guarantee: A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2017
This paper assesses the current situation of youth unemployment in the European Union. In this context, the main questions are whether the European Youth Guarantee has had any effects and how the school-to-work transitions of young individuals in Europe could be improved.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873609
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Promoting youth employment in Europe : evidence-based policy lessons
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. Based on the existing empirical evidence on different policy options, this chapter draws lessons for future policy making in order to effectively promote youth employment in Europe. In conclusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582723
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The European Youth Guarantee : A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2017
This paper assesses the current situation of youth unemployment in the European Union. In this context, the main questions are whether the European Youth Guarantee has had any effects and how the school-to-work transitions of young individuals in Europe could be improved.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658774
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Institutional arrangements, employment performance and the quality of work
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2009
The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269531