Download or read book Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe written by Ramón Gómez-Salvador and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the existing literature still lacks a comprehensive study of the relationship between labour supply and labour market institutions from a macro perspective.
Download or read book Welfare and Work Incentives written by Anthony Barnes Atkinson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors, Professor A. B. Atkinson and Gunnar Viby Mogensen, have assembled a series of chapters which together provide a unified comparative study of the microeconomic process whereby high taxes and high benefits act as disincentives to work. The contributors analyse the current debate on changes to the welfare state system, and illuminate the macroeconomic policy issue of the relation between tax receipts and benefit expenditure.
Download or read book Low wage Employment in Europe written by Wiemer Salverda and published by ACCO. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Institutions and Regional Labour Markets in Europe written by Lambert van der Laan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume examines the performance of labour markets against the background of different economic and institutional settings in Western and Eastern Europe. The book gives a clear picture of the mosaic of impressive transformations presently taking place in Western and Eastern European labour markets and provides access to information which was previously either widely dispersed or non-existent. The book gives detailed information about how countries and regions deal with transformations described. The substantive country-wide and regional diversity that is discussed allows the reader to understand the role of labour and institutions in the development of countries and regions. The book is written by labour market and regional experts from the various countries concerned.
Download or read book Working Europe written by Jens Christiansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999, Working Europe: Reshaping European employment systems offers a fresh analysis of recent changes in labour markets and the restructuring of welfare states. The analyzes presented in the articles not only focus on labour market changes, but take up the important issues of: * How labour markets have been regulated and directed * How the various social security systems offered by the welfare state are related to the questions of labour markets and employment systems * How efficient labour market policies are in reducing unemployment * How employment is locally created and initiated * How the gender system is related to employment systems. This book is the first to offer a full picture of the restructuring of the employment systems and the complex relationship between employment, the welfare state and concepts of work.
Download or read book Employment Policies and Programmes in Central and Eastern Europe written by Martin Godfrey and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains country studies on Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine, and examines government responsibilities in relation to employment, ways of improving the labor market, and the financing of employment services and unemployment benefits.
Download or read book Unemployment in Europe written by Joan Muysken and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By an international forum of contributors, this is the result of a conference organized by the Department of Economics of the University of Limburg and the European Production Study Group. All aspects of labour market research were discussed relating them to the unemployment situation in Europe.
Download or read book Policies Towards Full Employment written by European Commission and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of a conference on labour markets. It advances thinking on new policy measures, such as active labour market policies and measures to "make work pay".
Download or read book The Future of Work in Europe written by Paul Littlewood and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Recent years has witnessed major changes to the work place across Europe. The speed of these changes requires constant monitoring and reappraisal. In this book, recent trends are analysed and there consequences discussed. Key theses covered include unemployment especially amongst young people, the increase in insecure and precarious employment, the growth of the service sector, the influence of European law and the impact of international migration. The contributors view these trends within a socio-historical context which also reveals underlying patterns of continuity.” -- BACK COVER.
Download or read book Taxation and the Incentive to Work written by Charles Victor Brown and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study designed to give a relatively non-technical introduction to the effects of taxation on the supply of labour.
Download or read book Labour Market and Job Creation Policies in Europe written by European Trade Union Institute. ETUI Research Conference and published by Etui. This book was released on 1996 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Active Labor Market Policies in Europe written by Jochen Kluve and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment. This study provides novel insight on this important policy issue by discussing the role of the European Commission's Employment Strategy, reviewing the experiences made in European states, and giving the first ever quantitative assessment of the existing cross-country evidence.
Download or read book Changing Labour Markets in Europe written by Peter Auer and published by International Labor Office. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks primarily at macroeconomic policy, a necessary framework for every labour market, which does much to determine overall employment and unemployment levels. Drawing on the experience of four small European economies, four important policy areas are analyzed in terms of their potential contribution to employment success: macroeconomics, industrial relations, working time and equal opportunities.
Download or read book Policy Measures for Low wage Employment in Europe written by Wiemer Salverda and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These studies consider policy measures in the areas of taxation, benefits, and employer subsidies aimed at the low-skilled worker. The policy debate is extended to encompass the role of product demand related to low-paid, low-skilled work and to the fluctuating of the labor market. In particular, consideration is given to the role of job satisfaction and turnover in the retail trade and the hotel industry. Contributors are economists and government officials from Europe and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Taxation Welfare and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe written by Marco Buti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume analyse the role of European tax and benefit systems in incentives to create and take up jobs. The first section provides an overview of the issues relating to the trade-off between equity and efficiency. The second section describes the burden of taxation and the generosity of the welfare system in Europe. Part three examines how to evaluate the effects of tax and welfare reforms and the final section looks at ways that tax can be used to deal with some structural problems. The papers show that European policy makers face tough choices and that reforms are costly, with complex trade-offs.
Download or read book Preventing Unemployment in Europe written by Paul Klemmer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers in policy and social sciences from across Europe explore a number of perspectives for developing preventive labor market policies in the continent against the background of existing experience with national strategies and the increasing influence on labor market programs by the European Union. They focus on the extent to which the conditional framework is changing and how programs and instrument must respond, what response mechanisms characterize national strategies, and what learning processes can be triggered by exchanging national experience and what role the European Union organs play in such exchanges. The 12 papers are from a workshop for which no date nor location are identified. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The European Labour Market written by Commission of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
