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Effects of Labour Market Flexibility in the Long Run: Evidence from the Italian Case (1977-2009)
Alderighi, Stefano; Ivaldi, Enrico; Soliani, Riccardo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2014) 3
The present paper studies whether labour market deregulation is correlated with employment creation in Italy and the decline of trade union power. Our hypothesis is that the correlation does not hold, and that flexible contracts facilitated the dichotomy between industry and tertiary, without...
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Do policies that reduce unemployment raise its volatility? : evidence from OECD countries
De Serres, Alain; Murtin, Fabrice - 2013
In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its … Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of such policy trade-off. In contrast, we find that reduced unemployment … associated with a weaker persistence of unemployment over time, which implies a lower volatility of unemployment in the long run …
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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
dynamic simulations that account for the swings of the unemployment rates before and after the 2007 crisis. Our results … productivity, and demographics, succeed in explaining a great part of the changes in unemployment in both countries. …
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …
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Chapter 7. Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market
Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 619-700). 2011
This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
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How did immigrants fare in the Irish labour market over the Great Recession?
Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Connell, Philip J.; … - 2016
This paper identifies the labour market impact of the Great Recession on immigrants compared to natives and how this relationship has evolved since the downturn. We find that the employment penalty suffered by immigrant workers, relative to native workers, increased significantly over the Irish...
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Better harnessing talent and knowledge to boost sustainable medium-term growth in Spain
Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - 2014
Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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Working-week flexibility : implications for employment and productivity
Osune, Victoria - 2014
This paper evaluates the effects for the Spanish case of allowing greater flexibility regarding the weekly hours worked on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241369
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Addressing labour market challenges for sustainable and inclusive growth in Israel
Koelle, Michael - 2023
High employment growth has sustained Israel’s high GDP growth in recent decades, but demographic change and labour market duality put future growth at risk. Policy action is required to stimulate employment and raise labour productivity, especially among population groups with weaker labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491347
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China's Labour Market in Transition : Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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