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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451838
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371904
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384689
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316994
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495164
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Einstellungsgutscheine: Effektivität und Umsetzung
Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; … - In: Journal for labour market research 42 (2009/10) 3, pp. 252-266
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881800
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Commentary: the extent of high unemployment in OECD countries
Snower, Dennis J. - In: Reducing unemployment : current issues and policy …, (pp. 41-48). 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003097630
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325992