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Chronic Unemployment: A New Concept for Capturing Weak Labor Market Attachment

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
In this article, we develop, unfold, and explore the concept of ‘chronic unemployment’ to capture a segment that is weakly attached to the labor market because of repeated spells of unemployment, interrupted only by shorter intervals of temporary ...
Simo Aho, Magnus Jespersen, Regina Konle-Seidl, Rasmus Lind Ravn, Stine Rasmussen   +4 more
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Employers and the Implementation of Active Labor Market Policies

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016
Active labor market policies (ALMPs) are an important instrument for governments in dealing with the new challenges of globalization, flexibilization, and individualization of labor markets.
Thomas Bredgaard, Jon Lystlund Halkjær
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels, Cord‐Friedrich von Hobe, Miryam Sarah Merk, Thomas Kneib, Oliver Musshoff   +4 more
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Reinterpreting the Historicity of the Nordic Model

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012
In conventional images of the so-called Nordic model, the strong state is opposed to markets or civil society and co-operation is opposed to conflict.
Pauli Kettunen
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Social Capital, Creative Destruction and Economic Growth [PDF]

A distinction between individual and communal aspects of social capital is introduced, and their roles in production explored. Contacts are required to transact.
Dirk J. Bezemer, Paul Frijters, Uwe Dulleck   +2 more
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U.S. Department of Labor, Annual Report 2003: Outcome Goal 3.3 – Reduce Exploitation of Child Labor and Address Core International Labor Standards [PDF]

, 2003
The document provides an assessment of Outcome Goal 3.3 of the 2003 U.S. Department of Labor Annual Report, which aims to reduce the exploitation of child labor and address core labor standards through the efforts of the ...
U.S. Department of Labor
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Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Claims on Municipalities in the Swedish Labor Market Policy

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
Activation is crucial for beating unemployment for those with high thresholds for entering the labor market. The municipalities in Sweden have become an important factor in the activation.
Rickard Ulmestig
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Swedish Employers and Trade Unions, Labor Migration and the Welfare State—Perspectives on Swedish Labor Migration Policy Debates during the 1960s and the 2000s

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014
This article uses a political economy approach and explores the nexus between labor migration and the welfare state and how its specificities have been viewed and presented by organized interests of employers and trade unions in Swedish labor migration ...
Jesper Johansson
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Women's Economic Empowerment Strategy [PDF]

, 2015
In this document the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation outlines its strategy and motivation for supporting a focused agenda on women's economic ...

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