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The Relative Importance of Labour Market Reforms to Economic Growth

Aiginger, Karl - 2003

Insufficiently flexible labour markets combined with high welfare costs are often thought to be the main cause of unsatisfactory growth in Europe. This paper uses the OECD data on regulation of the product and labour market to confirm the difference in the extent of regulation between US and...

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Die Zukunft der Lissabon-Strategie

Breuss, Fritz - 2005

Die EU hat sich mit der Lissabon-Strategie bis 2010 ehrgeizige Ziele gesetzt. Die Union soll zum wettbewerbsfähigsten Wirtschaftsraum der Welt, der am schnellsten wächst und auch die hohen Sozialstandards beibehält, werden. Zusätzlich sollte die Wirtschaftsentwicklung auch umweltschonend,...

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Incomes Policies, Expectations and the NAIRU

Pollan, Wolfgang - 2006

Since the 1960s, several countries have adopted incomes policies to control inflation that was interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. This theoretical framework, termed the "battle of the mark-ups", has also formed the basis for estimating...

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Age Management - a Coping Strategy for Employers. The Case of the Automotive Industry

Biffl, Gudrun - 2006

Globalisation and the ageing of the work force represent a dual challenge for enterprises. The first exerts pressure on … after a certain age, particularly for unskilles and semiskilled workers involved in heavy physical work and where seniority … extent innovative and flexible organisation of work may ensure the survival of the production site in a highly developed …

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Incomes Policies, Expectations and the NAIRU

Pollan, Wolfgang - 2008

Since the 19960s, several countries have adopted income policies in various forms to control inflation that had been interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. Recent writings on the NAIRU, however, ignore past policy interventions in the wage and...

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Why Performance Differed Across Countries in the Recent Crisis. How Country Performance in the Recent Crisis Depended on Pre-crisis Conditions

Aiginger, Karl - 2011

The growth performance of countries proved to be very different during the recent crisis. We apply principal component analysis to derive a single ordinal indicator on growth performance and to analyse whether initial conditions of economies or structural characteristics can explain the...

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Why Labour Market Response Differed in the Great Recession: The Impact of Institutions and Policy

Aiginger, Karl; Horvath, Thomas; Mahringer, Helmut - 2011

This paper investigates the performance of labour markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialised countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes. We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labour market performance....

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Steuer- oder Beitragsfinanzierung der Arbeitsmarktpolitik?

Schmid, Günther - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 66 (1986) 3, pp. 141-147

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Das Vollbeschäftigungsziel: Eine konzeptionelle Kritik

Kösters, Wim - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 66 (1986) 5, pp. 259-264

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Das Beschäftigungsförderungsgesetz: Eine Zwischenbilanz

Erdmann, Ernst-Gerhard; Bleicher, Siegfried - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 66 (1986) 10, pp. 483-487

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