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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?

Earle, John S. - 2014

Conventional wisdom and prevailing economic theory hold that the new owners of a privatized firm will cut jobs and wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally...

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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted

Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015

Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...

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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...

Spermann, Alexander - 2016

to more sustainable employment. Adjustments in labor market institutions could make the provision of training more …

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

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A flexicurity labor market during recession : long-term unemployment did not rise under the flexicurity model during the great recession, despite the large drop in GDP

Andersen, Torben M. - 2015

low unemployment. But how did it fare during the recession, especially in Denmark, which has been highlighted as having a … employment in a recession. Did the high rate of job turnover continue or did long-term unemployment rise? And did the social …

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Employment and wage effects of extending collective bargaining agreements : extending provisions of collective contracts to all workers in an industry or region may lead to employm...

Villanueva, Ernesto - 2015

In many countries, the minimum wages and working conditions set in collective bargaining contracts negotiated by a limited set of employers and unions are subsequently extended to all the employees in an industry. Those extensions ensure common working conditions within the industry, limit wage...

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How are minimum wages set? : countries set minimum wages in different ways, and some countries set different wages for different groups of workers

Dickens, Richard - 2015

The minimum wage has never been as high on the political agenda as it is today, with politicians in Germany, the UK, the US, and other OECD countries calling for substantial increases in the rate. One reason for the rising interest is the growing consensus among economists and policymakers that...

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Compliance with minimum wage laws in developing countries : institutional, individual, firm, and local labor market characteristics are critical for understanding non-compliance wi...

Bhorat, Haroon - 2014

The level of compliance with minimum wage laws often depends on factors specific to each labor market. In most developing countries, a substantial share of workers still earns less than the legal minimum. Enforcement has not kept up with growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages...

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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...

McVicar, Duncan - 2014

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

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