Structural unemployment
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Opportunities and limitations Open
Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many developed countries. Start-up subsidies can assist unemployed workers in setting up their own business. This option can…
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Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015) Open
This paper investigates the ethnic dynamics of unemployment and earnings in the UK. Drawing on data from the first six waves of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2014), the analysis shows that ethnic minority…
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Educationalisation of youth unemployment through lifelong learning policies in Europe Open
In the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, European authorities reinforced the economic objectives of European lifelong learning policy, promoting employability solutions to address youth unemployment, and increasing their polit…
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An empirical study to evaluate the student competency of vocational education Open
The low work readiness of vocational education (VE) graduates is caused by a mismatch of competencies with job demands. The unemployment rate for VE graduates is increasing due to low competency mastery and job absorption. The purpose of t…
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The Cost of Unemployment in Saudi Arabia Open
After a prosperous youth starting from the early 1900s, Saudi Arabia is finally starting to face some of its first real challenges of the 21st century in the form of high rate of unemployment. This paper seeks to determine the root causes …
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The Ghent system in transition: unions’ evolving role in Sweden’s multi-pillar unemployment benefit system Open
This article discusses the multi-faceted and changing role played by trade unions in providing unemployment benefits in Sweden, a country using the so-called Ghent system. As an important institutional feature explaining the high rate of u…
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Employment and Employability of Engineering Graduates in India Open
While higher education system in India produces the second largest number of engineering graduates in the world every year, the employability of the graduates is questioned both in the domestic and international labour markets. Many rightl…
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Re-emergence of Asia in the New Industrial Era Open
The dawn of the new industrial era (Fourth Industrial Revolution or 4 IR, Industry 4.0, “McLuhan” stage) characterised by IT-based modern technologies and global value chains has regained the Asian economic strength. Overarching impact of …
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Labor Market Dynamics in Libya: Reintegration for Recovery Open
This policy note provides an initial assessment of Libya's labor market and discusses policy options for promoting employability as part of a broader jobs strategy. It is intended as a contribution to evidence on Libya's labor market for t…
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Influence of Institutional Factors on Structural and Cyclical Unemployment in the Countries of the Visegrad Group Open
The aim of the article is to describe effects of selected institutional factors on structural and cyclical unemployment. The theoretical and methodological basis of institutional aspects of the labour market functioning draws from a number…
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A cohort perspective of the effect of unemployment on fertility Open
This work offers an explanation for the apparent contradiction between empirical work that finds a negative relationship between unemployment and fertility, and theoretical work that emphasizes the lower opportunity cost of childbearing wh…
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The Unequal Opportunity For Skills Acquisition During The Great Recession In Europe Open
This paper is the first to investigate the extent to which the high levels of joblessness resulting from the Great Recession across Europe have translated into higher school attendance among youth. Using repeated cross‐sectional and longit…
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GREEN HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (GREEN HRM) AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES Open
The high concern and attention of the world leaders and stakeholders on climate change have necessitated shift to greening the economy in terms of renewable energy, green construction, environmentally friendly services, zero carbon emissio…
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Structural unemployment after the crisis in Austria Open
This paper analyzes the Austrian Beveridge curve as well as the Beveridge curves for different economic sectors in Austria over the period from 2008 onwards. We find significant outward shifts of the Beveridge curves in eight of the 21 sec…
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Unemployment as Factor of International Migration Open
Unemployment is a serious problem that troubles the majority of countries in the world. The big problem is particularly long-term unemployment. Slovak economy is trying to deal with this problem already for a long time. Despite of the pron…
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Econometric testing of unemployment hysteresis in selected CEE countries: Lessons for the Serbian economy Open
The paper investigates the empirical relevance of the unemployment hysteresis hypothesis in the following CEE countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Hungary and Slovenia. Monthly time series are considered over the 2004-2015 period. The ec…
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Evaluation of social and economic insecurity risks for employees during structural transformations in the modern labor market Open
This article systematizes main factors of socio-economic insecurity aggravation for employees during structural transformations, which take place on the modern labor market. These factors are related to inefficient employment and low level…
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Thirty years in Africa’s development: From structural adjustment to structural transformation? Open
Africa has come a long way since the economic turmoil of the 1980s, the decade of "structural adjustment". Growth has been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack…
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Disruption of the Ghent effect: Disentangling structural and institutional determinants of union membership decline in Sweden, 2005–2010 Open
In 2007–2008, Sweden implemented changes to the Ghent system of unemployment insurance, leading to union density decline. We study the interaction of labour force composition and institutional changes, finding that the structural tendencie…
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Re-emergence of Asia in the New Industrial Era Open
The dawn of the new industrial era (Fourth Industrial Revolution or 4 IR, Industry 4.0, “McLuhan” stage) characterised by IT-based modern technologies and global value chains has regained the Asian economic strength. Overarching impact of …
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Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future Open
The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Political transitions, i…
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The Dynamics of Unemployment in Poland from 1992 to 2017 Open
Two alternative approaches can be found in the literature on the dynamics of unemployment. The first approach is based on the theory of a natural rate of unemployment. Under this theory, the economy can depart from the natural rate of unem…
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Monetary Policies for Full Employment and Price Stability in Saudi Arabia: An Endogenous Money Approach Open
Despite being a relatively young and prosperous country, Saudi Arabia has recently suffered from substantial rises in unemployment. This dissertation thus examines the root causes for the rise in unemployment and limited monetary policies …
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Japan Open
Abenomics has improved economic conditions and engendered structural reforms but has not yet achieved a durable exit from deflation. The economy has expanded at a pace above potential the last five consecutive quarters, and unemployment ha…
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Reform momentum and its impact on Greek growth. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2015/12, July 2015 Open
Greece has an imperfect track-record of structural reform implementation. However, the poor growth outcome of the Greek programmes is also a consequence of the timing and composition of reforms, which were not optimally geared towards a sp…
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Determinants of unemployment in CEE-10 economies: the role of labour market institutions and the macroeconomic environment in 2002–2012 Open
The view that an institutional structure causes rigidities of the labour market is broadly accepted by policy makers. This assessment is conventionally based on unemployment theories that establish a linkage between labour market instituti…
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Mismatch unemployment in Austria: the role of regional labour markets for skills Open
Over the past decade, the Beveridge curve in the Austrian labour market has shifted significantly outward. Using detailed administrative data on job vacancies and registered unemployed persons by region and skill level, we investigate whic…
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Escaping stagnation and restoring shared prosperity: A macroeconomic policy framework for job-rich growth Open
In this succinct piece, the author makes a compelling case for ‘structural Keynesianism’ as a way of responding to the current mix of unsatisfactory growth and uneven progress in reducing unemployment at the global level. Traditional or ‘c…
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Improving the Organizational and Financial Models of Employment Assistance in Russia Open
The article discusses the basics of employment policy in Russia: the organizational model in terms of delineation of responsibilities between stakeholders, and the financial model in terms of the two basic directions of employment policy —…
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Constructing the Structurally Competent Classroom Open
Social work seeks to address social problems through interventions that span micro and macro systems. As such, all social workers are obligated to understand the interplay between individual realities and structural forces. Yet prior model…