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Central and East European Labour Markets in Transition: Developments, Causes, and Cures

Franz, Wolfgang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

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Employment Protection, International Specialization, and Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labour market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at late stages in their product...

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Training and Unions

Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm …

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How Labour Market Flexibility Affects Unemployment: Long-Term Implications of the Chain Reaction Theory

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the outcome of the interplay between labour market shocks...

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A Contribution to Unemployment Dynamics

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when...

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Restructuring Production and Work

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

combinations of skills and thereby 'resegment' the labour market, raising the wages and job opportunities of some workers relative …

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Progress in the Workplace.

Richardson, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

There has been a great deal of turnmoil in the Australian labour market over the past 25 years. This paper describes the main features of the changes which have occured over the principal dimensions of the work environment.

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Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth

Falkinger, Josef; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning … opportunities differ across workers determine simultaneously the long-run level of employment and the long-run rate of growth. We … rates but not necessarily less employment. The effects of redistributive policy measures among workers depend on the form of …

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …

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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

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