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model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment …
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We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the … balances in these accounts would then be available to them during periods of unemployment. The government would be able to …
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model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people?s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB)systems by an unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272967
calibrate our model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would … significantly change people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment …
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workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …
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full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …
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This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...
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' permanent contract" (EPC) in the 2012 labour market reform may have involved substantial deadweight effects. In fact, the …
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