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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages: Evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...

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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

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

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … America, Oceania, and East Asia. This has led to low labor force participation and high unemployment, especially among young … unnecessary evil. Restructuring unemployment and pension benefits will help to increase participation and reverse the decline of …

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What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? A global perspective

Pilc, Michal - Instytut Badañ Gospodarczych (IBG) - 2015

The aim of this research was to identify determinants of the employment protection legislation reforms in the global perspective. The study was based on the Labor Freedom index published by the Heritage Foundation, which allowed to include 179 countries in the research that were observed in the...

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Defining informality vs mitigating its negative effects

Bulmer, Elizabeth Ruppert - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

There are more informal workers than formal workers across the globe, and yet there remains confusion as to what makes workers or firms informal and how to measure the extent of it. Informal work and informal economic activities imply large efficiency and welfare losses, in terms of low...

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Soziale Risiken der Digitalisierung - Regulierungsbedarfe der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse

Keller, Berndt; Seifert, Hartmut - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 27 (2020) 2, pp. 227-249

Der Beitrag behandelt die absehbaren sozialen Risiken der Digitalisierung und unterbreitet eine Reihe von Vorschlägen zur Regulierung der zukünftigen Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Der erste Teil präsentiert auf der Basis von Projektionen einen Referenzrahmen zur Entwicklung des...

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Is the Global Competitiveness Index a reliable tool for the design of labor market policies? Evidence from Peru

Vera, Celia P.; Rendón, Sílvio - 2021

Peru's national policy on productivity and competitiveness relies on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) by the World Economic Forum. We analyze the subjective component of GCI and show that, in the labor market area, this index has been largely constructed with opinion data coming from a...

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What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? A global perspective

Pilc, Michal - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232303

Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data

Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420652

Do in-work benefits work for low-skilled workers? : to boost the employment rate of the low-skilled trapped in inactivity is it sufficient to supplement their earnings?

Van der Linden, Bruno - 2016

High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some household compositions (e.g. single mothers). "Making-work-pay" policies have been advocated for and implemented to address these issues. They alleviate the above-mentioned...

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