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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment:New Insights on the Nordic Experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861659
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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship?A Review of Recent Research
Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862087
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Spatial Mobility and Competition for Jobs: Some Theory and Evidence for Western Germany
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2006
This paper sheds new light on the role of regional labor market conditions for regional mobility. We study competition for vacant jobs along two dimensions - between employed and unemployed job searchers, and between resident and non-resident job searchers - within a simple matching framework....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005853918
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Identifying Vulnerable Groups in the Kyrgyz LabourMarket: Some Implications for the National PovertyReduction Strategy
Bernabè, Sabine; Kolev, Alexandre - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
This paper investigates the overlap between work and labour market status andidentifies those groups at risks of poverty and social exclusion in the labourmarket. A particular attention is devoted to the working poor and precariousworkers. This analysis is undertaken using the Kyrgyz Poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354057
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In-Work Benefi ts and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360547
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Another Economic Miracle?The German Labor Market and the Great Recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486981
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands : Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859608
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Centralized Wage Determination and Regional Unemployment Differences : The Case of Italy
Caponi, Vincenzo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Italian labor market is considered to be the most highly regulated among OECD countries, the unemployment rate in the North …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859493
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Why rising tides don’t lift all boats: An explanation ofthe relationship between poverty and unemploymentin Britain
Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
This paper is motivated by the lack of any obvious relationship betweenaggregate poverty and unemployment in Great … Britain. We derive aframework based on individuals’ risks of unemployment and poverty,and how these vary over the economic … cycle. Analysing the BritishHousehold Panel Survey for 1991-96, we are able to square the microevidence — that unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695295
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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?
Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …
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