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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014

Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018

one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely … signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the introduction of fair employment legislation, growth in hidden unemployment, and …

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Some recent developments in labour economics

Dolton, Peter J. - In: National Institute economic review 246 (2018), pp. 36-49

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Farewell flexicurity? : Danish flexicurity and the crisis

Bredgaard, Thomas; Kongshøj Madsen, Per - In: Transfer : European review of labour and research ; … 24 (2018) 4, pp. 375-386

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Welfare benefits and unemployment in affluent democracies : the moderating role of the institutional insider/outsider divide

Biegert, Thomas - 2017

The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly contested. The dominant perspective contends that … matches. Despite many studies of welfare benefits and unemployment, the literature has neglected how this relationship might … vary across institutional contexts. This article investigates how unemployment benefits and minimum income benefits affect …

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International trade and unemployment : evidence from selected Arab countries

Awad, Atif; Ishak Yussof - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 8 (2016) 2, pp. 198-229

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The labor market in Ireland, 2000-2016 : unemployment remains above pre-crisis levels, but recovery from its very high crisis level is well underway

Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2018

unemployment rate increased dramatically, and the labor force participation rate declined by four percentage points between 2007 … unemployment via a reduction in overall labor supply. As the crisis deepened, long-term unemployment escalated, creating … significant policy challenges. Overall unemployment has been dropping rapidly since 2013, but remains above its pre-crisis level. …

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The changing of the French labor market, 2000-2017 : the French workforce is now much better educated, but unemployment, underemployment, and low-income work present challenges

Askenazy, Philippe - 2018

France has the second largest population in the EU. Since 2000, the French labor market has undergone substantial changes resulting from striking trends, some of which were catalyzed by the Great Recession. The most interesting of these have been the massive improvement in the education of the...

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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...

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Labor market institutions and labor market performance : what can we learn from transition countries?

Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2010 - This version: September 2010

are important advantages of focusing on a broader set of labor market outcomes, and not only on the unemployment rate …

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The labor market in Finland, 2000–2016 : an almost decade-long economic stagnation left an unemployment problem for an aging society

Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna - 2018

finances, but high overall unemployment and a large share of the long-term unemployed are serious concerns. …

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