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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Labour market policy"”.
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Economic evaluation of active labour market policy in New Zealand 1989 to 1997
Active labour market programmes are an important component of government labour market policy internationally and in New Zealand. The growth in unemployment, and in particular male and long term unemployment, since the mid 1980's in New Zealand have contributed to the enhanced role of active labour …
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Essays on Earnings Instability: The Impact of Search Effectiveness, Labour Market Policy Instruments, and Globalisation
Chapter 1: We study the link between market thickness, labour market flexibility and wage dynamics. We consider an economy with two sectors; a risk-free sector that employs workers only, and a risky sector with matching frictions that employs both workers and employers. Workers are risk-averse, …
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Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies
… adds value to the South African literature on labour market policy evaluation and their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, with …
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A policy for the (jobless) youth: the employment tax incentive
… (ETI) is a first of its kind wage subsidy policy in South Africa. Designed to tackle the problem of youth unemployment, the ETI differs from previous policies as it aims to address unemployment through stimulating job creation. Youth unemployment has remained above 40 percent in the past …
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Evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of new employment enhancement programmes in an Irish context: A focus on well-being and employability
… interest in recent years from governments, policy makers, researchers and practitioners. During the last three decades or so, there has been a significant shift in international labour market policy (and its impleme ntation) toward activation and active labour market policy to help the …
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Neoficialios Lietuvos darbo rinkos priežastys ir sprendimo galimybės /
The paper deals with unofficial labour-market in Lithuanian labour market: it has been analysed the singularities and factors of unofficial labour-market; policy of the national labour-market, also changes in historical attitude of labour-market. The forms of illegal labour market and different …
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The PPTA and the State: from militant professionals to bargaining agent : a study of rational opportunism
… a 'modest safety net'. The financial and the labour market were deregulated to become more free of direct State involvement. The administration of education was changed and the individual schools' elected Boards of Trustees were made responsible for the provision of schooling. The role of PPTA …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… qualitative comparative case study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… qualitative comparative case study of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
… there is disagreement as to whether labour market institutions have converged on a similar market-liberal model in the face of intensifying global competition and race-to-the-bottom pressures, or whether they have continued on their resiliently dissimilar institutional pathways. This …
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Utanförskap på entreprenad. Diskurser om sociala företag i Sverige
… adopting a more pro-active attitude to labour market integration have emerged in recent years. Here, the social enterprise is framed as an active labour market policy tool aiming to amplify excluded people’s work-abilities in order to include them in society. The results of the thesis …
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… workers and firms and how their decisions affect labour market outcomes. My PhD dissertation consists of three separate Chapters that use detailed historical, census and administrative data to gain insights into the mechanisms at play when incentives for production and location decisions change. …