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. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …
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. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912095
economic growth in the future. -- unemployment ; labor force participation ; labor supply ; benefit systems ; public policy …
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force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …
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employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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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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The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …
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The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0:3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826254