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    Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book includes empirical contributions focusing on disadvantaged workers. According to the European Commission’s definition, disadvantaged workers include categories of workers with difficulties entering the labour market without assistance and hence, requiring the application of public measures aimed at improving their employment opportunities. In addition to the labour market perspective, ... Read more

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  • Social Exclusion

    Short and Long Term Causes and Consequences

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book provides a panoramic approach to social exclusion, with emphasis on structural causes (education, health, accidents) and on short term causes connected with the crisis which started in 2008. The picture emerging, based on econometric analysis, is that the crisis has widened the risk of social exclusion, from the structural groups, like disabled people and formerly convicted people, to ... Read more

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