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Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?
Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860602
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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate:Evidence from Denmark
Svarer, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862085
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Unemployment in East and West Europe
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863008
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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251
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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers tastes exhibit a form of home bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859466
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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Complianceand Informality
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. Togauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extentof minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approachallows us to examine (i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486985
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
females are disadvantaged in the Serbian labor market in terms ofmoving out of the two undesirable states, unemployment and … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … gender earningsgap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment,and inactivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522192
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Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859639
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sa, Filipa - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860382
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Preferences for Collective versus Individualised Wage Setting
Boeri, Tito; Burda, Michael C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Standard models of equilibrium unemployment assume exogenous labour market institutions and flexible wage determination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860626