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Portugal: Rebalancing the Economy and Returning to Growth Through Job Creation and Better Capital Allocation
Pina, Álvaro; Abreu, Ildeberta - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
increasing targeted training. Reforms in wage setting, labour taxation, unemployment benefits and activation policies will foster … job creation, thus enhancing output growth while avoiding high unemployment becoming entrenched and threatening social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276804
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2006
indicator – and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670365
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
indicator – and our macro performance outcome is the unemployment rate. Independent of the role of other institutions, good … industrial relations do seem to matter: greater strike volume is associated with higher unemployment. Holding country effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762431
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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits … qualifications and regions to fight unemployment. Regulatory conditions in other parts of the economy interact in important ways with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045708
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343926
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157031
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Labor market policy and subjective well-being during the Great Recession
Morgan, Robson; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019
labor market policies. More generous unemployment support, which provided income replacement or programs to assist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012151876
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The Public Health Costs of Job Loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203830
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Employment protection, job insecurity, and job mobility
Bertoni, Marco; Chinetti, Simone; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023
This study leverages the Italian Jobs Act reform as a natural experiment to examine the impact of reduced employment protection on job insecurity and job mobility. The reform significantly lowered protection for open-ended contract workers in large firms hired after March 7, 2015, and introduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442452
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Employment and Unemployment in the Process of Stabilization
Barzashki, Stanimir - Agency for Economic Analysis and Forecasting, Ministry … - 1992
information base, the employment and unemployment analysis meets several problems, which impose some developments to be analyzed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493367