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Long-term unemployment and the capability approach: The case of the German labor market

Olejniczak, Michael - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 2, pp. 140-157

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German...

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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil

Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - 2017

We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil, which experienced a large decrease in earnings inequality while its real minimum wage increased from 1996-2012, we document that the inequality decrease was bottom-driven yet...

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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: The quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies

Addison, John T. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-53

This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, somewhat greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...

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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets

Bertola, Giuseppe; Koeniger, Winfried - 2004

Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow, and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor workers when borrowing constraints are binding. These simple theoretical insights are consistent with the...

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The right to a job, the right types of projects: employment guarantee policies from a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2007

There is now widespread recognition that in most countries, private-sector investment has not been able to absorb surplus labor. This is all the more the case for poor unskilled people. Public works programs and employment guarantee schemes in South Africa, India, and other countries provide...

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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recession"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty...

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Minsky's approach to employment policy and poverty: employer of last resort and the war on poverty

Wray, L. Randall - 2007

While Hyman P. Minsky is best known for his work on financial instability, he was also intimately involved in the postwar debates about fiscal policy and what would become the War on Poverty. Indeed, at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a vehement critic of the policies of the...

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Did political constraints bind during transition? Evidence from Czech elections 1990 - 2002

Doyle, Orla; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2005

Many theoretical models of transition are driven by the assumption that economic decision making is subject to political constraints. In this paper we empirically test whether the winners and losers of economic reform determined voting behaviour in the first five national elections in the Czech...

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Labor market policy instruments and the role of economic turbulence

Schuster, Philip - 2010

Times of high unemployment always inspire debates on the role of labor market policy and its optimal implementation. This paper uses a dynamic model of search unemployment and bilateral wage bargaining, rich enough to analyze a set of policy instruments with respect to their employment and...

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Rethinking conflict inflation: The hybrid Keynesian-NAIRU character of the conflict Phillips curve

Palley, Thomas - 2024

This paper presents a new formulation of conflict inflation labeled the "pass-through" approach, which contrasts with … the existing "pressure balance" approach. The model generates Phillips styled inflation - unemployment dynamics that are a … hybrid of Keynesian and NAIRU dynamics. Conflict inflation arises when economic activity rises above the consistent claims …

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