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"Welfare magnetism" in the EU-15? Why the EU enlargement did not start a race to the bottom of welfare states

Skupnik, Christoph - 2013

According to the welfare magnet hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most generous welfare systems. After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries can thus be expected to reduce public benefits in order...

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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...

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A Template for Analyzing and Projecting Labor Market Indicators

Abdih, Yasser; Behar, Alberto; Cevik, Serhan; Chami, Ralph - 2012

This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze …

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Gender, entrepreneurship and socioeconomic reparation in Jammu & Kashmir

Pandow, Bilal; Ashai, Salma; Hussain, Gousiya - 2018

&K] socioeconomic challenges of high unemployment, and unbalanced distribution of income. The unemployment rates revealed by National … the females in urban arears are unemployed and the rate is at 11.7 percent. And the same pointer for the unemployment rate … for male population is hovering at 6.7 percent and the figure at all-India level for the female (urban) unemployment rate …

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A Template for Analyzing and Projecting Labor Market Indicators

Abdih, Yasser; Behar, Alberto; Cevik, Serhan; Chami, Ralph - 2012

This note is a reference guide for the unemployment template, an econometric tool that allows researchers to analyze …

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Reform der schwedischen Arbeitsmarkt- und Tarifpolitik

Zierahn, Ulrich - 2008

Der schwedische Wohlfahrtsstaat wird häufig als gelungene Kombination aus wirtschaftlichem Erfolg und sozialer Gerechtigkeit angesehen. Zu Beginn der 1990er befand sich Schweden jedoch in einer schweren Krise, aus der es sich mittlerweile weitestgehend erholt hat. Seit der Krise wurden einige...

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EMU and the New "Stabilization State": Demand Disturbances and Asymmetric Responses

Pagoulatos, George; Pelagidis, Theodore - 2004

Despite its important advantages of efficiency gains, price transparency, monetary stability, easing currency markets pressure on the payments balance, and so on, EMU is anything but a risk-free enterprise. Economic conflict may arise from unfortunate developments regarding the Euro, which may...

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Wage Determination and Imperfect Competition

Booth, Alison L. - 2014

A striking feature of the past few decades has been the development of wage-determination models that assume that labour markets are imperfectly competitive. This paper discusses two such models (trade unions and oligopsony), although there are many more. It also asks if imperfectly competitive...

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Vállalati reakciók a gazdasági válságra 2008 - 2009

Köllő, János - 2010

Using firm-level and individual panel data from 2008-2009, the paper looks at how Hungarian firms combined employment reduction with "softer" measures like short-work and wage cuts, in response to the crisis. The data suggest that the wage distribution remained practically unchanged while hours...

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How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply?

Zanella, Giulio - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...

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