... not contain variables representing social factors of respondents like marital status, number of children or labour market absence due to birth or childcare. Third, data used for this study do not contain firms that have less than 10 employees; therefore, considerable portion of the labour market is omitted...

... population and perform the econometric analysis using logistic smooth transition autoregressive models that are flexible and capture various kinds of behavior for different modes. The paper investigates labor markets of six Eastern European countries, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Croatia...

...Paulo Roberto Amorim Loureiro; Ricardo Azevedo Araujo; Nathalia Almeida de Souza Purpose The aim of this paper is to perform an evaluation of the Brazilian informal labor market, following the lines suggested by Araujo and Souza. The paper focuses on the Brazilian labor market by using data from...

...Jaakko Pehkonen; Hector Sala; Pablo F. Salvador Purpose This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their recent labour market booms and slumps. Design/methodology/approach Based on the empirical models of Karanassou et al., we...

... to lower adjustment costs. Originality/value The paper is one of the first to focus on labour market adjustment costs in transition countries. Its results also reveal that the estimations on the impacts of trade liberalisations should be interpreted only with care due to sensitivity on the length...

...Ioannis Theodossiou; Grigoris Zarotiadis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of labor market experience among the unemployed in a less developed area in Greece (the north‐western region of Epirus), where unemployment has severe detrimental repercussions on the local...

...Enlinson Mattos; Laudo M. Ogura Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of skill differentiation between formal and informal labor markets. Design/methodology/approach First, a theoretical model is developed under the assumption that concealment of production...

... is an inefficient allocation of labor among firms, because some firms become larger than is necessary. Originality/value The paper provides a novel approach to model the between‐firm displacement effects of marginal wage subsidies and derives policy conclusions. Pay Unemployment Subsidies Labour market...

... a negative impact on the wife's working hours; the latter was significant, thus nevertheless pointing to some discouraged‐worker effect, but which was less than a tenth of the added‐worker effect. Labour market poverty Women workers Industrialized economies The labor supply schedule...

...Melanie K. Jones Purpose This paper aims to identify and draw together key themes in the literature relating to the impact of disability on labour market outcomes. In doing so it provides an overview of issues in estimation in empirical work relating to disability. Design/methodology/approach...

...Karl Aiginger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reassess the relative impact of labour market regulation on economic performance. Inflexible labour markets combined with high welfare costs are often thought to be the main cause of low growth in Europe. Design/methodology/approach...

... the model's steady‐state and transitional dynamic properties. Originality/value Provides an analysis of the growth impact of state‐provided education. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Development Taxation Labour market Education Economic growth A central tenet of education...

... subsistence needs to pay wages below the marginal product. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Poverty Developing countries Small enterprises Monopolies Labour market Another paper showed that the labor market may become dysfunctional and exhibit an unstable equilibrium. When...

... club should be jointly significant in the estimated transfer fee equation, having controlled for player and selling‐club characteristics. The paper is structured as follows. In Section II we survey the existing literature on labour markets in professional team sports and player transfers...

..., is a notable feature of economic relations in Europe since the fall of the Soviet empire. This is modelled in the paper as a device whereby a supply side constraint (labour market restrictions) within the EU is relaxed by vertical disintegration of production and relocation outside the EU. This in turn has...

..., there are some indications that in several regions, labour force and employment are positively associated. This means that there is a portion of the population, mostly women, that move in and out of the labour market, in accordance with job availability[1]. The labour force, consisting of employment plus...

... law and classical economics. Continues by analysing the statements of German economists before Roscher on the issues of the general glut controversy. Ends with a closer inspection of Roscher′s own theory of crisis. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Capital Keynesian School Labour market Marxian...

...Bruno Amable; Jérôme Henry; Frédéric Lordon; Richard Topol Hysteresis is one of the main concepts used in Layard, Nickell and Jackman′s book, Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. Attempts to clarify the concept of hysteresis, from its formal representation to its...

... of unemployment equilibria. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Economics Econometrics Interest rates Macroeconomics Trade balance Unemployment Labour market Journal of Economic Studies 20,1/2 Unemployment Revisited Stephen Nickell Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, UK Introduction...

...Ray Barrell The analysis of the processes determining unemployment in an open economy has been considerably advanced by the work of Layard, Nickell and Jackman in their book Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. Reviews their contribution. They have developed...