The Hartz IV reform of the German labor market has been one of the most controversial reforms in the history of the reunited Federal Republic of Germany. It has been widely seen as the end of the welfare state leading into ...
Economics & Business
Nov 7, 2013
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The older you are, the harder it is to get a job if you're unemployed. In 2013 the average length of unemployment for workers over the age of 50 was 53 weeks, compared to 10 weeks for teenagers, according to the United States ...
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2013
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Crime and unemployment are linked, but not always in the ways we think they are.
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2013
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Andrea Ortiz, a 24-year-old Spaniard, has degrees in law and business yet works in a multinational clothing company as a store clerk. She has little hope of advancement and fears that when finally she does get a job she wants, ...
Economics & Business
Oct 8, 2013
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The nation's poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America's slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack ...
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2013
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A new study from the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business and Stanford University suggests that in times of recession, worker output increases and employers and firms are able to "do more with less." Additionally, ...
Economics & Business
Sep 11, 2013
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New figures from the 2011 Census show successive Government policies have had little impact on the high levels of joblessness among some ethnic minority groups.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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Consumer confidence eased in August after reaching its highest level in six years in the prior month, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/U-M Surveys of Consumers.
Economics & Business
Sep 2, 2013
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Europe's young people are facing a bleak future with a fragmented and precarious labour market that is only just beginning to be appreciated in the West, according to a paper to be presented this Thursday to the European ...
Economics & Business
Aug 27, 2013
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More than a third of young adults who don't drive say they are too busy to get a driver's license—and more than a fifth have no intention of ever learning to drive, say researchers at the University of Michigan.
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2013
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