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Purpose – The purpose of the paper was to establish the implications of globalisation for labour markets when efficiency wages create endogenous wage rigidity and to re‐examine the credibility of the arguments that call for deregulation, more wage flexibility and less social protection in...
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representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us …
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the role of social networks on the job search choices of the unemployed. If social networks convey useful information in the job search process, individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search channels. This in...
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Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include … unemployment entry. Research limitations/implications – The findings offer interesting perspectives, e.g. with regard to the design …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of financial crises on the youth unemployment rate (YUR … unemployment. The inclusion of many control variables – including in particular GDP growth – does not change the sign and …‐to‐work transition institutions are particularly needed to reduce the risk of persistence and structural (long‐term) unemployment, since …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to theoretically and empirically investigate the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on employment prospects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts a theoretical approach that discusses the effects of two major...
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‐term effects for the displaced shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher …
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receive unemployment benefits than natives, consistent with findings in other countries. These findings hold, regardless of … immigrants are less likely to receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits than natives. However, once cohort of arrival is …
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The results of a study of long‐term unemployment based on a survey in County Durham are presented. It was found that … of job they would take or the minimum acceptable pay. There was some evidence that the longer‐duration unemployed tended …
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The article assesses the direct and indirect impact of a major redundancy on local unemployment. The extent of these … market adjustment and, therefore, reduced both the direct and indirect effects of the redundancy on unemployment. The data …
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