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2022-04-13 Working from home during a pandemic – a discrete choice experiment in Poland

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The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed working from home from a rarity to a widely adopted job amenity. We study workers’ willingness to pay for working from home, and how it may be affected by subjective and objective assessments of COVID-19-related risks. We conducted a discrete ...

2022-04-01 Youth labour market: indicators of demand and availability before and during Covid-19

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Karolina Bolesta

others

Youths in the labour market today have been facing numerous challenges. The purpose of the research presented in this article is to measure the changes in the labour market due to the pandemic outbreak in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland in the light of labour ...

2022-03-16 The role of Public Employment Services in the job search behaviour of Italian NEETs

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This outreach report is devoted to the study of the positioning of the Public Employment Services (PES) in the job-search behaviour of Italian NEETs and their effectiveness in providing support to young jobseekers. We assess the ties between the young population and the PES and ...

2022-01-12 The impact of robots on labour market transitions in Europe.

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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: the ...

2021-12-09 Resilience to the financial crisis in EU countries: a comparative analysis of NEET youths in a longitudinal perspective

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Marianna Filandri

Francesco Trentini

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In recent years the number of young individuals not in employment, education nor training has been rising alarmingly. This condition may have long-lasting social and economic consequences and the ability to profile the most resilient types gives important information on more effective interventions for the ...

2021-10-28 Do the Public Employment Services reach non-employed youths?

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One of the prime objectives of the Youth Guarantee is to convince young persons not in education or employment to register as jobseekers. This is done such that they can benefit from the services that the YG provides, which is especially important for those with ...

2021-09-30 Flexibility of working time arrangements and female labor market outcome

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Katarzyna Lipowska

Iga Magda

working paper

We use data from 2019 EU LFS to study gender and parenthood gaps in flexibility in working time arrangements. We find that overall in Europe, there is no statistically significant gender difference in access to flexible work arrangements. However, women are less likely than men ...

2021-08-24 Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

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Jan Gromadzki

working paper

Unconditional cash transfers in the form of a universal basic income, a universal basic pension or a universal child benefit are increasingly being discussed in many countries. In this article, I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. ...

2021-03-31 How to reduce the social costs of coal mine closures?

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As a result of decarbonisation, the number of jobs in coal mining and mining-related industries will drop. However, the risk of increased unemployment related to this process can be minimised. To that end, to mitigate the consequences of the transition away from coal, it is ...

2021-03-30 Improving outreach among university students. Results from a RCT in the Basque Country

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We set up an experiment that aims to improve the registration rate at PES of last year undergraduate students of the University of the Basque Country. The results of this experiment show large gains from information-enhancing interventions on PES if designed holistically. We estimate the ...

2021-03-26 Outreach activities of public employment services in Poland

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Mateusz Smoter

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This publication was created as part of the “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” project, which seeks to combat unemployment among young people. It measures the effectiveness of instruments to support young people who aren’t working or studying in four countries: Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project ...

2021-03-08 Report on outreach performance and YGS implementation: results and efficiency in Spain

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In this study, we first provide the statistical profile of the NEETs in Spain. We then analyse how they stand in terms of outreach. For the unemployed NEETs, we find that the average LFS outreach level is 77.8%. Among the inactive NEETs, the average LFS ...