Essays about: "Labour market policies and institutions"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Labour market policies and institutions.
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1. Labour market mechanisms - An empirical study of policies and institutions on the general labour market and the short term effects on the Swedish labour market during the Covid-19 crisis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis looks at labour market mechanisms for 13 advanced countries and narrows down the focus to the Swedish labour market during the Covid-19 crisis. We concluded that short term unemployment benefits are correlated with a decrease in the unemployment rate while trade union density and public unemployment spending for a longer period is correlated with an increased unemployment rate. READ MORE
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2. Revising the link between neighbourhoods and education: The case of well performing middle schools in Malmö
University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : How do neighbourhoods affect life chances? This is a question that researchers have asked in different forms as early as the 50’s –and there is no shortage of papers exploring neighbourhood effects: how where we live affects our well-being or our participation in the labour market, our life expectancy or, in general, our life outcomes. Yet, there is less consensus than one would expect from a field that has been this active: mechanisms are not clearly defined, methodologies are often one-sided, theoretical concepts are outdated and sometimes harmful for communities and contextuality of most kinds is surprisingly rare. READ MORE
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3. Unemployment in the 21st Century: The Interaction between Macroeconomic Shocks and Institutions
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper analyses the driving factors of youth- and adult unemployment in the OECD-countries during the 21st century. Focus is on both macroeconomic shock variables, such as the GDP-gap, the real interest rate and total factor productivity-growth, and institutional variables, such as union density, active labour market policies, the tax wedge, the replacement rate and the share of temporary employment contracts. READ MORE
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4. JOB INSECURITY AND GENERALIZED TRUST The role of labour market policies and institutions in mitigating or exacerbating the effects of job insecurity on generalized trust
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The labour market in Europe har for decades now seen a radical shift from traditional full-time labour with unlimited contracts to a new flexible labour market designed to the economy of today, with temporary employment and employment contracts of limited duration with lesser security than the traditional ones. This development has coined the term insiders and outsiders which by all means have different labour market situations. READ MORE
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5. ANTI-IMMIGRANT PARTY SUCCESS - The insider-outsider divide and the role of labour market policies and institutions in 19 countries
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The structure of the labour market in industrialized economies has changed during the last decades. There has been an increase in atypical employment, such as limited contracts. This development has resulted in a dualization of the labour market between permanent workers, insiders, and temporary workers, outsiders. READ MORE
