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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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Gendered Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Transitioning from University to Labor Market : Evidence from Turkey

Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic led to unprecedented disruptions in the labor market. Turkey implemented a worker dismissal ban …

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The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment : Evidence from Turkey

Papps, Kerry L. - 2012

paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low …

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The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets : The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey

Akgündüz, Yusuf - 2015

than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee … influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … us to employ the rest of regional Turkey as control group with a difference-in-difference approach to analyze the impact …

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Evaluating the Impact of the Post-2008 Employment Subsidy Program in Turkey

Balkan, Binnur - 2016

This paper investigates the employment effects of a targeted subsidy scheme implemented in Turkey following the 2008 …

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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

Betcherman, Gordon - 2008

employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …

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Low-Skill Offshoring : Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects

Agnese, Pablo - 2014

We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could potentially outweigh the negative welfare effects of offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment...

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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare

Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018

This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...

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Labor Market Power

Berger, David - 2019

What are the welfare implications of labor market power? We provide an answer to this question in two steps: (1) we develop a tractable quantitative, general equilibrium, oligopsony model of the labor market, (2) we estimate key parameters using within-firm-state, across-market differences in...

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