Title:Unemployment and Solidarity in Post-Communism - Negotiating Meanings between the West and the Past
Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Research into living in former communist, neo-capitalist countries identifies what could be called a 'post-communist paradox of desolidarisation' - i.e. persistent egalitarian values coincide with low levels of involvement ...
Title:Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?
Author(s):FACCINI, RenatoDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char-
acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...
Title:Unemployment Insurance and Home Production
Author(s):TASKIN, TemelDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In this paper, we incorporate home production into a quantitative model of unemployment and show that realistic levels of home production have a significant impact on the optimal unemployment insurance rate. Motivated by ...
Title:Unique Authoritarianism: Shifting Fortunes and the Malleability of the Salih Regime in Yemen, 1990-Present
Author(s):BLUMI, IsaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Ever since the political elite of the two Yemeni states agreed to unify in 1989, the dynamics of the newly created country's sociopolitical development has been co-opted by a diverse group of local actors. In the process ...