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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers

Rosholm, Michael - 2014

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...

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NAIRU estimates in a transitional economy with an extremely high unemployment rate : the case of the Republic of Macedonia

Trpeski, Predrag; Tevdovski, Dragan - In: Economic annals 60 (2015) 206, pp. 167-186

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Unemployment and happiness : successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors …, for helping the unemployed back into work, and for more evenly distributing the burden of unemployment resulting from …

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The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment : evidence from Russia

Muravyev, Alexander; Oščepkov, Aleksej Ju. - 2015

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...

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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru

Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015

Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...

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Testing the relationships between shadow economy and unemployment : empirical evidence from linear and nonlinear tests

Saafi, Sami; Farhat, Abdeljelil; Mohamed, Meriem Bel Haj - In: Studies in nonlinear dynamics and econometrics : SNDE ; … 19 (2015) 5, pp. 585-608

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UK labour market policy then and now

Mayhew, Ken - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 2, pp. 199-216

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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015

Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

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Relation between monetary announcement and Phillips Curve? : an empirical study from Malaysia

Philip, Abey P. - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 21 (2014) 4, pp. 131-142

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Labor markets, unemployment and optimal inflation

Kumar, Alok - 2013

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