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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...

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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2013

coming to employers instead of the latter seeking them out and (2) the larger set of potential employees would increase the … probability of employers finding individuals suitable for unfilled jobs. Moreover, individuals seeking employment may engender … employers to think of new ways in which labor can be used. An increase in the number of entrants to the labor force would lower …

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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer?: Labor-Demend Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

Hallberg, Daniel - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2011

In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective …

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One Way the Demand for Labor May Adapt to the Availability of Labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

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One way the demand for labor may adapt to the availability of labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

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Labor Contracts and Flexibility: Evidence from a Labor Market Reform in Spain

Aguirregabiria, Victor; Alonso-Borrego, Cesar - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

This paper evaluates the effects on employment, job turnover and productivity of a labor market reform in Spain that eliminated dismissal costs for fixed-term or temporary contracts. Our empirical results are based on a panel of 2356 Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1982-1993. We...

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LABOR ADJUSTMENT DYNAMICS: AN APPLICATION OF SYSTEM GMM

Esperança, Pedro M. - Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE), Ministério da … - 2011

This paper analyzes the dynamics of the Portuguese labor market using micro data: implications of adjustment costs to input factor adjustment throughout the business cycle are discussed; the current situation of the Portuguese labor market is reviewed; and measures of speed of adjustment for...

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Firms’ demand for work hours: Evidence from matched firm-worker data in Japan

Kuroda, Sachiko; Yamamoto, Isamu - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 29 (2013) C, pp. 57-73

Using information on Japanese males’ work hours and the matched firms’ characteristics, this paper investigates whether the number of hours worked is determined by demand-side factors and tries to offer a possible explanation of why Japanese males tend to work longer on average, than their...

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Employment effects of payroll taxes : an empirical test for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

This study tests to what degree the incidence of payroll taxes in Germany is on employment and whether in consequence payroll taxes, in particular social insurance contributions, are the culprit behind the growing unemployment problem. Using industry level data for 18 years (1977-1994) we...

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