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A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database

Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

level of regulation or fiscal burden on labour. Econometric evidence on the effects of selected reforms on aggregate labour …

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Labour Market Regulation in the EU-15: Causes and Consequences - A Survey

Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per; Josephson, Malin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the Swedish defense, the normal retirement age was 60 years of age. Estimating the effect of the...

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The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups

Bissonnette, Luc; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the summer of 2006, monthly survey data were collected on the expectations of Dutch households concerning...

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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries

Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...

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The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects’ reservation wages. The temporary introduction of a minimum...

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Reducing Income Transfers to Refugee Immigrants: Does Starthelp Help You Start?

Rosholm, Michael; Vejlin, Rune M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition...

Addison, John T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and …

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Institutional Arrangements, Employment Performance and the Quality of Work

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...

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