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The labor market in Poland, 2000-2021
Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased … underemployed. During the Covid-19 pandemic the slowdown in economic growth and increase in unemployment were small. …
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Structural or cyclic? Labor markets in recessions
Lazear, Edward P. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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Relative deprivation in the labor market
Verme, Paolo - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)
Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
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The labor market in the UK, 2000-2019
Herz, Benedikt; Van Rens, Thijs - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment …
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Structural or cyclic? Labor markets in recessions
Lazear, Edward P. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) August, pp. 1-10
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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The labor market in Australia, 2000–2016
Barrett, Garry - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
continuing convergence of employment and unemployment patterns for men and women. However, some recent negative trends include a … rise in unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, a deteriorating youth labor market, and a stagnant gender earnings …
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The gender gap in time allocation
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)
Many countries experience gender differences, of various magnitudes, in the time devoted to paid work (e.g. market work time) and unpaid work (e.g. housework and childcare). Since household responsibilities influence the participation of women, especially mothers, in the labor market, the...
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Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes
Bratti, Massimiliano - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)
The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mothers and, at a macro level, for the country in which they live. Research has primarily focused on the effect...
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How responsive is the labor market to tax policy?
Blundell, Richard - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
With aging populations and increased demands on government revenue, countries need to boost employment and earnings. Tax policy should focus on labor market entry and retirement. Those are the points where labor supply is most responsive to tax incentives, which can enhance the flow into work of...
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Who owns the robots rules the world
Freeman, Richard - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Robots, that is any sort of machinery from computers to artificial intelligence programs that provides a good substitute for work currently performed by humans, can increasingly replace workers, even highly skilled professionals, and thus reduce opportunities for good jobs and pay. But, with...
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