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The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … changes in regional unemployment. Accounting for the fluctuations in composition of the employees is important for the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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unemployment and high labour market participation the Netherlands faces further challenges with regard to flexicurity and security … empirical results of a study on arrangements or systems to prevent unemployment for employees who are threatened by redundancy …
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We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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In our analysis we try to recover the wage loss from unemployment in Spain and see how it is affected by previous … unemployment experience, unemployment duration, eligibility for unemployment benefits, and previous wages. We also study its …
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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In this paper we present and analyze the IMF’s labor market recommendations for advanced economies since the beginning of the crisis, both in general and specifically in program countries. Our analysis is informed by our reading of the theoretical and empirical literature on the design of...
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been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …
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In this paper we present and analyze the IMF‘s labor market recommendations for advanced economies since the beginning of the crisis, both in general and specifically in program countries. Our analysis is informed by our reading of the theoretical and empirical literature on the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073990
In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319989
1950s? As the millennium approached, Germany's inflation rate was very low; its unemployment rate unacceptably high; and …
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