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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...

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The informal labour market in India : transitory or permanent employment for migrants?

Junankar, Pramod N.; Shonchoy, Abu - 2013

This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to improve their life time income and life style. We limit our study to the Indian urban...

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Not so standard anymore? : employment duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2014

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labour market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour...

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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

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Labor market imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy

Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016

We use matched employer-employee data and firm balance sheet data to investigate the importance of firm productivity and firm labor market power in explaining firm heterogeneity in wage formation. We use a linear regression model with one interacted high dimensional fixed effect to estimate...

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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...

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Local labor markets and taste-based discrimination

Berson, Clémence - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 5, pp. 1-29

This article appeals to heterogeneity in workers' non-wage preferences to model taste-based discrimination. Firms hire both types of workers and pay lower wages to minority workers, whatever their taste for discrimination. A single prejudiced firm in the market produces a substantial wage gap in...

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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012

size of the informal economy. There is also evidence that a larger tax wedge increases informality. The tax wedge … with the literature, which identifies labor market regulation and the tax wedge as important drivers of informality …. -- labor market institutions ; informality ; macroeconometric regressions ; transition countries ; Latin America …

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Employment concentration and resource allocation : one-company towns in Russia

Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2011

The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...

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Beyond "manucentrism" : some fresh facts about job and worker flows

Bingley, Paul; Eriksson, Tor; Werwatz, Axel; … - 1999

This paper gives a comprehensive picture of job and worker flows for the entire Danish economy. We exploit a unique central administrative register encompassing all employees of all workplaces across all sectors throughout two business cycles. This enables us to broaden the focus of the previous...

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