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of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a …
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We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...
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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...
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Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload … employment and welfare recidivism comparing cohorts of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare …
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optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance of several conflicting effects, it seems clear that a reform … should be accompanied by an expansionary macroeconomic policy. This makes structural reform more problematic in the context …
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Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in facilitating the labor market adjustment of new arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only...
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active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what …
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We analyze the disparate effects of a recent California sentencing reform on the arrest, booking, and incarceration …
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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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reform trajectories in a diverse group of European countries that are characterised by a high share of temporary employment … two preceding decades - or based on dualisation or insider-outsider theory. The reform trajectories are characterised by …
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