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Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view …
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Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market … economies are discussed. It is shown that dual labour market theory is an important contribution to understanding unemployment …
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We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from social security records to document the evolution of earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, showed a substantial decrease...
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Die Studie "EU-Erweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration" wurde vom ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung , München, im Forschungsbereich Sozialpolitik und A r - beitsmärkte erstellt und im Dezember 2000 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung ....
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firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …
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the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
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In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for...
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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …
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Trade unions are consistently found to compress the wage distribution. Moreover, unemployment affects in particular low …
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the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
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