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This paper introduces and examines a definition of an equilibrium rate of unemployment that can be used as mismatch …
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Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
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In this paper the effects of institutional variables on unemployment are reinvestigated for nine OECD countries. The … unemployment may differ across countries, not only in absolute terms but also in terms of sign. The main results are the following …. Fourthly, based on a cross country comparison some evidence is found that some of the considered labour market institutions …
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present paper investigates whether and to what extent labor market institutions can mitigate those costs. We study how life … satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments … through the institutions' effect on macroeconomic outcomes). We find that the total effect of employment protection is …
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This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...
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This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income...
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We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...
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This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …
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and the regional unemployment rate when children are 10 years old are significantly related to the education that these …
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