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• Taxing the global worker: three spheres of international social security coordination

  - 2006-06-22

  Social security is a fundamental part of workers' lives in three spheres: contributions are required, benefits are hoped for, and taxes on benefits may have to be paid. If a worker splits a career between several countries, each of these three spheres is affected. The United States has sought international...

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• An analysis of joblessness in Australia

  - 2005-03-01

  Unemployment levels have been falling steadily in Australia for some time--yet, when 'hidden' unemployment is taken into account, the work force remains considerably under-utilised. As well, work opportunities are sharply polarised across households and spatially. These problems stem largely from structural imbalances and inefficiencies in the job market, which are...

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• Rethinking Corporatism and Consensus: the dilemmas of German social-protection reform.

  - 2003-07-01

  This article explores the competing influences of institutional legacies and political negotiation in recent German social-protection reform. Long a paragon of consensus and gradual political change, the German political economy has adjusted poorly to the pressures of fiscal austerity and structural unemployment, creating pressures for an increasingly salient role for...

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• Making Work Pay - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included

  - 1999-12-01

  Making work pay policies aim at reducing problems faced by persons with low earnings potential and their dependants There has recently been increased interest in policies that subsidise work at low pay in order to "make work pay". [1] Such policies operate either by reducing employers' cost of employing...

  Tags: benefit, earnings, FINANCE, income, OECD, payroll, Taxes, U.K., U.S., worker

• Growing old extravagantly.(economic effects of early retirement)(Brief Article)(Column)

  - 1998-06-20

  IN BELGIUM, only one man in ten is still in the labour market at the age of 65, the official retirement age. On average, men retire before their 58th birthday. Back in 1960, Belgian men typically worked until they were 63. Yet in the interim, elderly BIN...

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• Employment Outlook, July 1996. - book reviews

  - 1997-03-01

  Washington, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1996, 212 pp. $60.The deepening problem of unemployment and poverty in many of the 27 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development OECD is analyzed in terms of its implications for labor markets and social aid in this, the OECD'S...

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• A supply-side explanation of European unemployment.

  - 1996-09-01

  The adverse incentive effects of generous welfare programs during economic instability served as vital factors which led to the high unemployment rates in Europe. An illustrative lake model shows the high incidence of long-term unemployment in the welfare states. Such information indicates the need to reform European social insurance programs,...

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• The Reich Reich: the Clinton crew has embraced the German model - just as the Germans have realized it doesn't work - emphasis on government-run economic programs as supported by Bill Clinton and Labor Sec Robert Reich - includes related article on the Eu

  - 1994-07-11

  In the 17 months since Bill Clinton took office, his Administration has demonstrated a faith in state-directed economic management that may be unprecedented in American history. From health-care reform and technology development to worker training and labor-market activism, the Clinton agenda calls for government action to address an array of...

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• The OECD jobs study - Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development

  - 1994-06-01

  Nature and dimensions of unemploymentUnemployment in the OECD area of 35 million, some 8 1/2 per cent of the labour force, represents an enormous waste of human resources, reflects an important degree of inefficiency in economic systems, and involves a disturbing degree of social distress. The measured unemployment rate ranges...

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