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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an … Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We … show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job …

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Is it socially efficient to impose job search requirements on unemployed benefit claimants with hyperbolic preferences?

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: Journal of Public Economics 113 (2014) C, pp. 80-95

DellaVigna and Paserman (2005) and Paserman (2008) have shown that imposing job search requirements on sophisticated …, by limiting harmful procrastination, and for employees, since the enhanced search boosts the job finding rate, thereby …

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Equilibrium Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes Enhancing Matching Effectiveness

Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

levels. Job search effort, labour demand and wages are endogenous. When wages are bargained over, raising the effectiveness …

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On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse

Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility functions and wages are bargained over. The optimal allocation of resources is characterized first when information is perfect and second when search effort is not observable....

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Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Marc; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with...

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Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in Europa: Status Quo und (keine?) Perspektiven

Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Arbeitsmarktpolitik identifiziert. Obgleich auf europäischer Ebene bereits massive Interventionen angekündigt worden sind, ist ein …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...

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Beautiful Serbia

Bonin, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program - the ‘Beautiful Serbia’ program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro - on measures of subjective well-being approximating individual welfare. According...

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Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession

Brenke, Karl; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Short-time work was the 'German answer' to the economic crisis. The number of short-time workers strongly increased in the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of short-time work, unemployment would have risen by approximately twice as much as it actually did....

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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity

Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule increases employment. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity increases overall employment through a wage moderating effect and also because employment of low-paid...

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