Search results for "UNEMPLOYMENT"

Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment

2013

Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a positive impact on unemployment, albeit only in the medium term.

Banking Crises, Labor Market Reforms and Unemployment

2013

How Do Institutions Affect Structural Unemployment in Times of Crises?

2012

This paper examines the effect of economic crises on structural unemployment using an Autoregressive Distributed Lags model and accounting for the role of institutional settings on an unbalanced panel of 30 OECD economies from 1960 to 2006. We found that downturns have, on average, a significant positive impact on the level of structural unemployment rate. The maximum impact varies with the severity of the downturn. Institutions (such as employment protection legislation, average replacement ratio and product market regulation) influence both the extent of the initial shock and the adjustment pattern in the aftermath of an economic downturn.

Baltijas Psiholoģijas žurnāls

2013

Riin Seema, Anna Sircova. Mindfulness – a Time Perspective? Estonian Study ; Emīls Kālis, Līga Roķe, Indra Krūmiņa. Indicators of Creative Potential in Drawings: Proposing New Criteria for Assessment of Creative Potential with the Test for Creative Thinking – Drawing Production ; Ieva Urbanaviciute, Antanas Kairys, Inga Juodkune, Audrone Liniauskaite. The Lithuanian Version of the Global Motivation Scale: Testing Its Reliability and Factorial Validity ; Maruta Ludāne, Ieva Bite. Predictors of Cognitive Appraisal of Job Loss among the Unemployed Aged over 45 Years ; Per Eisele. Pooling Unshared Information: Comparing Computer-Mediated Group Discussion with Face-to-Face Group Discussion and E…

Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates

2012

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneur…

Regional Labour Market Adjustment: Are Positive and Negative Shocks Different?

2001

This paper investigates the evolution of regional disparities in Finland between 1988 and 1997. The analysis focuses on per capita GDP and its subcomponents, particularly labour productivity, jobs and population. The results show, first, that the evolution of labour productivity and the number of jobs account for the emerged regional divergence of per capita GDP during 1990-1995. Second, even though inter-regional migration tends to have convergent effects on regional per capita GDP, its effect was not strong enough during 1990-1995: the divergence of productivity and jobs dominated. Third%2C among divergent factors (productivity and jobs), manufacturing contributes the most to the divergen…

Employment status and occupational positions of childhood cancer survivors from Denmark, Finland and Sweden: A Nordic register-based cohort study fro…

2021

Background: A childhood cancer diagnosis and late effects of treatment may affect survivors' possibilities of employment or highly skilled occupations later in life. In this study, we compared the employment and occupational status of childhood cancer survivors with population comparisons and siblings.Methods: In a cohort study based on Nordic registers, we identified 10 461 survivors of childhood cancer diagnosed before age 20 years in Denmark, Finland and Sweden since 1971. Survivors were compared with 48 928 population comparisons matched to survivors by age, sex and geographical region and 12 605 siblings of survivors. Annual outcome information on employment, unemployment, health-relat…

Graduate employment and the returns to higher education in Africa

2013

http://cemapre.iseg.utl.pt/educonf/2e3/files/submissions_to_web/Barounia%20Mahdi_Broeckeb%20%20Stijn.docx; In this paper, we estimate the return to higher education for 12 African countries using recent data and a variety of methods. Importantly, one of our methods adjusts for the effect of higher education on the rate of joblessness, which is substantial in most African countries, and particularly for women. Our results confirm that Mincerian coefficients cannot be interpreted as a true rate of return, and that the latter (even after taking into account the employment effect) is considerably lower than what has previously been suggested in the literature (less than half). For Sub-Saharan A…

Les jeunes issus de l'immigration. De l'enseignement supérieur au marché du travail

2004

04038http://www.cereq.fr/pdf/b205.pdf; Souvent d'origine sociale défavorisée, les jeunes issus de l'immigration sont proportionnellement moins nombreux que les autres à poursuivre leurs études après le baccalauréat. Même lorsque tel est le cas, leur passage par l'enseignement supérieur ne parvient pas toujours à gommer le poids de leur origine, en particulier lorsqu'ils sont issus de l'immigration nord-africaine. Plus souvent confrontés au chômage, à la précarité de l'emploi, les jeunes d'origine maghrébine, et notamment les jeunes femmes, ont en effet plus de difficultés à entrer dans la vie active. Pour accéder à leur premier emploi, ils ont fréquemment recours à l'intérim, au travail sai…

Sull'adeguatezza dell'indennità euro-unitaria di disoccupazione (EUBS)

2017

L’indennità euro-unitaria di disoccupazione (EUBS) è una misura di armonizzazione volta alla convergenza regolamentare a livello europeo del sostegno al reddito in caso di disoccupazione. L’EUBS è una delle proposte più significative che le istituzioni europee stanno elaborando con gli stati membri e le parti sociali. L’EUBS ha presupposti giuridici nel TFUE e nella Costituzione italiana. Il saggio è un contributo giuridico all’idea politica sotto una duplice prospettiva. Si studiano, da una parte, le complicazioni e le criticità dell’introduzione dell’EUBS rispetto alle fonti di diritto europeo; al contempo, con riferimento alla stratificazione normativa del sistema previdenziale italiano …