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long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities. …During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western …. Continuing health and productivity improvements in the general population are leaving people with disabilities behind, unable to …
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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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implementation of four strategies: First, investive social transfers, in particular by establishing a European Fund for Employment …
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market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade … costs, this triggered a sequence of more employment-oriented and more fundamental reforms that eventually helped overcome a … low employment situation. The paper pursues the trajectory of reforms, shows the structural change in labor market …
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This paper proceeds from two key assumptions. The first is that European countries are likely to face increased immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring is also likely to increase. It has been widely argued...
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of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the … Netherlands has witnessed unbundling in the period 1996-2005, which implies that advantages of specialisation have increased …. These developments explain to a considerable extent changes in the structure of employment. Especially at the spatial level …
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preferences, or by other neighbourhood or housing market factors. By using longitudinal register data from the Netherlands, this …
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This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...
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) employment status. There is no study known to us that investigates the effects of the family’s immigrant background. This study …
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
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