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The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …
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Ireland, with its labour market experiencing substantial increases in unemployment due to the implementation of a number of … of COVID-19 on disabled peoples' unemployment status relative to those without a disability. Using OLS and propensity … on unemployment risk remained largely stable during and after the health pandemic. The paper also found some interesting …
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lowers the low-skilled unemployment rate and has a positive effect on output per capita; (iii) migration of only medium …This paper analyses the impact of the skill composition of migration flows on the host country's labour market in a … paid to medium-skilled migration which enables us to augment the literature by replicating important stylized facts …
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This paper evaluates a placement coaching program implemented in Zurich during 2009-2013 that focused on the reemployment of persons drawing disability insurance (DI) benefits. A private company was commissioned to implement the program. Kernel-based matching and radius matching with bias...
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in unemployment and an increase in the labor force participation. Quantitatively, a 10 percentage point increase in the …
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This paper evaluates a placement coaching program implemented in Zurich during 2009–2013 that focused on the reemployment of persons drawing disability insurance (DI) benefits. A private company was commissioned to implement the program. Kernel-based matching and radius matching with bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997495
in unemployment and an increase in the labor force participation. Quantitatively, a 10 percentage point increase in the …
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We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
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We investigate to what extent workplace unionisation protects workers from external shocks as predicted by models of implicit contracts. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a plausibly exogenous shock hitting the whole economy, we compare workers who worked in unionised and non-unionised workplaces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500674
independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of …
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