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Regional Labor Market Disparities in Belgium

Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …

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EURO-PRODUCTIVITY AND EURO-JOBS SINCE THE 1960s: WHICH INSTITUTIONS REALLY MATTERED?

Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe … labor-market policies such as employee protection laws seem to have become more costly since about 1980, not through overall …

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Who Creates Jobs?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O’Connell, Stephen D - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 70, pp. 1-7

There is a consensus that jobs are vital in translating economic growth into lasting poverty reduction and social cohesion. But who creates jobs is an understudied field. This Economic Premise argues that there is a strong link between initial levels of young and small firms and subsequent job...

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Myanmar in Transition: Opportunities and Challenges

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2012

abundant labor force, rich natural resources, and geographical location.But the country faces many development challenges to …

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State Union Membership, 2013

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

On January 24, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …

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Women Workers and Unions

Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

This issue brief looks at the most recent national data available to examine the impact that being in or represented by a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age, race, industry, educational attainment and state of...

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Union Advantage for Black Workers

Jones, Janelle; Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

In this report, we review the most recent data available to examine the impact of unionization on the wages and benefits paid to black workers. These data show that even after controlling for factors such as age and education level, unionization has a significant positive impact on black...

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Regulation of Public Sector Collective Bargaining in the States

Schmitt, John; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

While the unionization of most private-sector workers is governed by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the legal …

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Barriers to Freedom of Contract in the Public Sector

Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

the private sector from entering into certain kinds of labor contracts. Federal labor law mandates that unions represent …

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State Union Membership, 2012

Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle; Sanes, Milla - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

On January 23, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its estimates for union membership in the United States in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604615