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Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
Hernæs, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500312
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Pension Reform and Labor Supply: Flexibility vs. Prescription
Hernaes, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163476
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Pension reform and labor supply : flexibility vs. prescription
Hernæs, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - 2015
We exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages (prescription), respectively. We find that increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473192
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The effects of financial and technical assistance on employment growth in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Bah, El-hadj; Brada, Josef C. - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 1 (2014) 1, pp. 5-17
such assistance in increasing the growth of employment in the assisted firms. We control for firm characteristics, as well … firms in Bulgaria and in Macedonia to increase employment more rapidly, than firms that did not receive assistance did. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533941
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A Stable and Social Europe: Fiscal Rules, a Stabilization Fund, Insolvency Rules, Gender Quota, Gender Pension Gaps, and Education. Reports
Fratzscher, Marcel; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Michelsen, Claus - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 148-159
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014957
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Stabiles und soziales Europa: Fiskalregeln, Stabilisierungsfonds, Insolvenzregeln, Gender Quote, Gender Pension Gaps, Bildung. Berichte
Weinhardt, Felix; Hammerschmid, Anna; Rowold, Carla; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 18, pp. 310-321
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016353
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The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement
Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R.; Heinrich, Carolyn J. - Economics Department, University of Missouri - 2007
We examine the effects of temporary help service employment on later earnings and employment for individuals … participating in three federal programs providing supportive services to those facing employment difficulties. The programs include … heterogeneous population of participants; and employment exchange services, whose participants consist of Unemployment Insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585673
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Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed
Bennmarker, Helge; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Vikman, Ulrika - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We estimate the effects of conditioning benefits on program participation among older long-term unemployed workers. We exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting where workers who ex-hausted their benefits received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690438
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Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed
Bennmarker, Helge; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Vikman, Ulrika - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
We estimate the effects of conditioning benefits on program participation among older long-term unemployed workers. We exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting where workers who exhausted their benefits received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699282
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Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed
Bennmarker, Helge; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Vikman, Ulrika - 2012
We estimate the effects of conditioning benefits on program participation among older long-term unemployed workers. We exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting where workers who exhausted their benefits received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321116