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The deteriorating labour market position of low‐skilled workers challenges economic efficiency and social equity. Four aspects are examined: joblessness among the low‐skilled; the prevalence of low pay among women; persistence in low pay; and the overlap between low pay and household poverty....
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While unemployment has been the common experience of OECD countries over the last three decades, there have also been … unemployment and wage inequality. According to this argument, the USA has achieved relatively low unemployment at the cost of … widening inequality, while Europe has only been able to maintain equality at the cost of high unemployment. This introduction …
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unemployment throughout the OECD; second, the diversity in the scale and content of that rise as between, on the one hand, the core … of the European Union and Australia, and, on the other hand, North America. The growth and persistence of unemployment … sectors. This is the major source of deflationary pressures and persistent unemployment throughout the world. Those pressures …
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The Australian unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1989, and looks likely to fall further, perhaps … important, therefore, to consider whether recent reductions in unemployment will be maintained when the current expansion ends …
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Britain’s New Labour Government has radically shifted its policy aims away from securing traditional full employment towards the improvement of “employability”. This paper briefly assesses what is meant by employability and how the Government has integrated its “supply side” approach...
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unemployment benefit recipients in Australia, focusing on the role of regional differences in employment opportunity and housing …. There is some evidence of negative incentive effects of unemployment benefit levels on mobility, but this is difficult to …
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Despite improved employment performance across the OECD in the late 1990s, unemployment remains a key issue for …
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This paper presents a model with flexible wages in which unemployment of low‐skilled labor is possible in equilibrium … shown that a switch to technologies with higher skill requirements unambiguously leads to a rise in unemployment of low …
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Analyses factors determining the outflows from unemployment to employment across regions in Poland over the years 1992 … structure of the regional labour markets in Poland. Concludes that the values of outflows from unemployment to employment are …; and that the employment structure of regional labour markets has a strong impact on outflows from unemployment to …
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This econometric study deals with the question as to what extent apprentices, after successfully completing their training, stay with the firm that supplied their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds. Determinants of both decisions can be seen from both the employer’s and the...
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