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The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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earnings using register data that contain PES and caseworker identifiers for about 130,000 job spells. The results show that … "carrots" increase earnings whereas "sticks" decrease them. We find regime effects of a similar order of magnitude. More … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …
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, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large … shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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earnings for 2,485 individuals born in 1972–1978 and diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at <15 years old, we found that childhood … health and socioeconomic status is partly explained by a gradient that runs from health to earnings, rather than the other … way around, which has important implications for policy to reduce socioeconomic-related health inequality. …
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A large literature on African economies argues that ethnicity plays a role in the politics and economics of African countries. Unfortunately, much of this literature is speculative or anecdotal because of the lack of data, with the exception of a few papers that examine ethnic networking as a...
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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 ….7%-0.9% higher inequality in all three countries. However, in the 2000s, whereas the inequality-employment sensitivity ratio slightly …
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Recent empirical evidence suggests that a positive technology shock leads to a decline in labor inputs. However, the standard real business cycle model fails to account for this empirical regularity. Can the presence of labor market frictions address this problem without otherwise altering the...
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employment in Europe has grown. Against this background, the European Ventura Capital and Private Equity Association has … venture-backed companies employed between 4.8 and 6.4 million people in Europe in 2004. European private equity and venture …
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This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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