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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001570242
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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001
keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es …
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Why do Europeans work less than Americans? : public consumption and welfare benefits as a cause of the North-Atlantic divide
Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2015
We propose an explanation of why Europeans choose to work fewer hours than Americans and also suffer higher rates of unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries reduce, ceteris paribus, the gains from being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496985
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Deposit Insurance : A Survey of Actual and Best Practices
Garcia, Gillian - 2021
The paper surveys the characteristics of explicit systems of deposit insurance in 68 countries. It compares these actual practices with a set of best practices that has been adopted by IMF staff for their advice to member countries. These best practices seek to establish a system of deposit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317707
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281240
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520356
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A Quantitative Comparison of Unemployment Benefit Extension and Level Increase
Bayraktar, Erhan; Mitra, Indrajit; Zhang, Jingjie - 2023
We use mean-field game theory to quantitatively compare two unemployment insurance (UI) extension policies commonly used during recessions: raising benefit levels versus extending the duration of benefits. Our heterogenous-agent model features costly job search and individual savings. Our...
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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages : Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324849
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376904
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337020