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to show a trade-off between informality or vulnerability of employment and unemployment rates in Africa. The paper also … unemployment. Findings – The paper finds a significantly negative correlation between unemployment and informality in Africa …. Beside the high level of informality that hides the face of unemployment, the exclusion of many discouraged workers in …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment … protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages (MW), union power and tax wedge on migration flows. The … effects of unemployment, employment protection and migration policy on flows. The negative effect of migration policy on flows …
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The effect of layoff announcements on the shareholder returns of 154 firms that announced layoffs in 1993‐1994 was examined with event study methodology. As expected, the returns to these firms were negative. Further, the returns to the firms that announced layoffs for “reactive” reasons...
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Purpose – Employment protection legislation defines social criteria according to which firms can dismiss workers. If firms evade the law, then negotiation about compensation begins. To reduce the legal and financial uncertainty often associated with ex post bargaining, the German government...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between both job insecurity and fairness and employees' attitudes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention). Moreover, of even greater interest, it aims to test whether fairness mitigates the...
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Purpose – Employment law reform enforced in Estonia in mid-2009 provides a good opportunity to examine the outcomes of employment protection legislation (EPL). The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of the reduction in EPL on labour reallocation. Design/methodology/approach –...
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Purpose – Employment protection legislation defines social criteria according to which firms can dismiss workers. If firms evade the law, then negotiation about compensation begins. To reduce the legal and financial uncertainty often associated with ex post bargaining, the German government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489496
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between both job insecurity and fairness and employees' attitudes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention). Moreover, of even greater interest, it aims to test whether fairness mitigates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675254
The deteriorating labour market position of low‐skilled workers challenges economic efficiency and social equity. Four aspects are examined: joblessness among the low‐skilled; the prevalence of low pay among women; persistence in low pay; and the overlap between low pay and household poverty....
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While unemployment has been the common experience of OECD countries over the last three decades, there have also been … unemployment and wage inequality. According to this argument, the USA has achieved relatively low unemployment at the cost of … widening inequality, while Europe has only been able to maintain equality at the cost of high unemployment. This introduction …
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