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Full Employment : A Distant Dream for Europe

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

Bockerman, Petri - 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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Recent Reforms of the Tax and Benefit Systems in the Framework of Flexicurity

Carone, Giuseppe - 2010

maintain high levels of employment and participation rates, especially among female and older workers, and to reduce structural …

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Labour Market Prospects and Policies to Soften the Impact of the Financial Crisis

Carone, Giuseppe - 2009

The global downturn is now strongly affecting EU labour markets. In light of the downward revision to the growth projections and the uncertainty created by the financial meltdown, the outlook for employment has deteriorated considerably. This would also be consistent with the experience from...

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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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Demand for Cheap Transport by Government Workers and Production in the Public Sector

Nyamandwe, Jane; Gambiza, Elsie T; Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021

The Zimbabwean nation has been struggling to gain economic development momentum in the multicurrency era despite numerous efforts being made by policy makers. The economy has since operated with budget deficits and high consumption expenditures in the form of wages for civil servants and little...

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Soziale Risiken der Digitalisierung : Regulierungsbedarfe der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse

Keller, Berndt; Seifert, Hartmut - In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, … 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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What determines the reforms of employment protection legislation? : a global perspective

Pilc, Michał - 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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Making employment more inclusive in the Netherlands

Baker, Mark; Gielens, Lindy - 2018

The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts. These developments may reflect a preference of...

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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884372