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By the Sweat of Their Brow : Welfare to Work in Los Angeles

Force, Peter - 2016

The nation's best known welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was created to give widows and destitute mothers the means to stay at home and care for children. However, the entry of large numbers of American mothers into the paid workforce has created increasing tension...

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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

Conventional wisdom suggests that nominal, demand-side shocks have only temporary effects on real macroeconomic magnitudes and that the duration of their effects depends on the degree of nominal inertia. It is also argued that, in the absence of unit roots, temporary supply-side shocks also have...

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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries

Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

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Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers

Gautier, Pieter A. - 1999

This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.

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Fachkräfteengpässe und Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa: Wanderung als kurzfristiger Ausgleichmechanismus

Demary, Markus; Erdmann, Vera - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 39 (2012) 3, pp. 35-48

Wachstumspotenziale in den kommenden zwei Jahren aufgrund fehlender Fachkräfte unausgeschöpft blieben. In Deutschland lag der Anteil bei … Griechenland nach Deutschland, Schweden oder Österreich können die regionalen Arbeitsmarktungleichgewichte abgebaut werden. So … Erwerbspersonen abzumildern. Daher kommt der Aktivierung der inländischen Fachkräftepotenziale auf lange Sicht auch in Deutschland die …

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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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How aging of the labor force affects equilibrium unemployment

Hetze, Pascal; Ochsen, Carsten - 2005

This paper argues that aging of the labor force affects job creation and job destruction. To analyze this, we extend a standard model of equilibrium unemployment and search in the labor market by the distinction between age specific separation risks and a productivity differential between young...

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Crisis, what crisis? : patterns of adaptation in European labor markets

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986366

Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550612