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countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
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countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141223
In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current … the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961048
In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current … the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352792
In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current … the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354543
national pension system, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the … States. Our characterization and international comparisons show that Swedish policies and institutions strongly disfavored … comparatively neutral set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution in the mid-1980s is sharply tilted away …
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We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe...
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The overwhelming majority of self-employed individuals are not entrepreneurial in the Schumpeterian sense. To unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) from the Forbes Magazine list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way, we...
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and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …
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In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …
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