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Davoine, Thomas; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2015

This paper considers the role of flexicurity when jobs must be reallocated from a declining, traditional sector to a … the tax schedule with three pillars of ‘flexicurity’. The optimal policy includes (i) a progressive wage tax schedule; (ii …

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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Labor market regulation and the legal system

Hefeker, Carsten (contributor); Neugart, Michael (contributor) - 2007

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Labor market institutions and the cost of recessions

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...

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Does it matter when labor market reforms are implemented? : the role of the monetary policy environment

Lastauskas, Povilas; Stakénas, Julius - 2019

Do labor market reforms initiated in periods of loose monetary policy yield different outcomes from those that were introduced in periods when monetary tightening prevailed? Since economic theory usually pays attention to the steady state change and ignores business cycle interactions of...

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The distributional impact of labour market reforms : a model-based assessment

Röger, Werner; Varga, Janos; Veld, Jan in 't; Vogel, Lukas - 2019 - This version: 16 October 2019

This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...

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Labour-market reform, skill-based exports and employment : some unconventional results under finite change in general equilibrium

Ahuja, Rashmi; Ganguly, Shrimoyee; Acharyya, Rajat; … - 2024

This paper highlights the critical role that demand-shock and policy-shock induced finite changes play for the unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market reform that lowers the institutional costs of...

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Employment protection versus flexicurity : on technology adoption in unionised firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik (contributor); … - 2008

We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology …' incentives to invest in such technology. We find that increased flexicurity interpreted as less employment protection and a …-saving technology. -- Technology adoption ; trade unions ; employment protection ; flexicurity …

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Flexicurity in Belgium : a proposal based on economic principles

Cockx, Bart; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2009

propose a reform that is explicitly guided by economic principles. -- flexicurity ; employment protection ; unemployment …

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On the determinants of labour market institutions : rent-sharing vs. social insurance

Agell, Jonas - 2000

What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...

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