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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2003
sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094257
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - CESifo - 2001
effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094450
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Institution Formation in Public Goods Games
Kosfeld, Michael; Okada, Akira; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2006
Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come into existence. In this paper we investigate, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406364
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2003
of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406375
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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran
Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014
especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … education expenditures in short term. If sanctions are successful to change the political behavior of Iran in short run (Dizaji …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739347
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Linden, … - CESifo - 2011
sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371346
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Returns to Tenure or Seniority?
Buhai, Sebastian - 2008
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last, are the first to leave the firm (Last In, First Out; LIFO). Second, workers' wages rise with seniority (= a worker's tenure relative to the tenure of her colleagues). We seek...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770492
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas - 2015
We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024495
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Are Real Wages Rigid Downwards?
Holden, Steinar - 2013
This paper explores the existence of downward real wage rigidity (DRWR) in 19 OECD countries, over the period 1973-1999, using data for hourly nominal earnings at industry level. Based on a nonparametric statistical method, which allows for country and year specific variation in both the median...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753919
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation : Evidence from Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment as a worker discipline device, considering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315813