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Towards a European full employment policy
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Full employment in the European Union member states is a challenge but feasible, also in downswings of the business cycle and during stages of increased robotization. It requires a labor legislation that ensures flexibility and retraining, responsive labor sharing during the business cycle and...
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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2016
margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705667
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Internal devaluation and labor market outcomes : evidence from Latvia
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2017
unemployment. Underemployment constitutes another important adjustment channel, while the evidence for informal employment is more …
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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015
margin since it is driven by flows from permanent wage employment to unemployment. We also show that older, non-Latvian and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427677
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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The post-unification German labor market
Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor … have alleviated social burdens from unemployment. Discussing what causes the high unemployment in the east, we claim that … effects of wage policy have been overrated. Differences in unemployment rates are also the result of more ample labor supply …
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Big data and unemployment analysis
Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …
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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...
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Labor markets and labor market institutions in transition economies
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2011
This paper summarizes the evolution of labor markets and labor market institutions and policies in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as of Central Asia over the last two decades. The main focus is on the evolution of labor market institutions, which are among candidate...
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Labor market institutions and labor market performance : what can we learn from transition countries?
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2010 - This version: September 2010
are important advantages of focusing on a broader set of labor market outcomes, and not only on the unemployment rate …
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