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Policy responses to regional unemployment:Lessons from Germany, Spain and Italy

Davies, S.; Hallet, M. - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2001

The paper examines the causes of high regional unemployment in Germany, Spain and Italy, and identifies a number of areas where policy action is needed. Lower unemployment rates will not only depend on stability-oriented macroeconomic policies and a sufficiently flexible labour market, but also...

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs: Females Trapped at the Bottom of the Ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …

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Labor Market Signaling with Overconfident Workers

Santos-Pinto, Luis - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2010

/or underconfident workers in the labor market compresses wages. I show that workers' biased beliefs reduce welfare when workers are …

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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - In: Speech (2010) Jul 22

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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The Role of Non-Traditional Work in the Australian Labour Market

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia - 2006

The Productivity commission research paper, ‘The Role of Non-Traditional Work in the Australian Labour Market’ was released on 25 May 2006. There is continuing debate in Australia about the effects of labour market changes on the wellbeing of workers and their families. One such change has...

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The EU-India FTA in Services and Possible Gender Impact in India: Concern Areas

Sengupta, Ranja; Sharma, Ashotosh - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper studies the impact of services trade liberalization under the currently negotiated EU-India FTA on womenâ€™s lives in India and tries to delineate the concern areas. Relevant sectors of interest are also studied with the two indicators; employment and access, in view. Some gender...

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Labour market response to globalisation: spain, 1880-1913

Beltrán, Concha; Pons, María A. - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2010

1913 by examining the influence that globalisation factors had on agricultural and industrial wages. Our results show that … the nineteenth century grain invasion had a negative impact on agricultural wages, whereas the fall in wheat prices did … not benefit industry workers. We also found that migration pushed up real agricultural and industrial wages. As …

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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2010

investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption of a unitary long-run elasticity of wages …

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Trends in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 2010

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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