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The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Youth unemployment is notoriously high in France, in particular for the low-skilled. Within the EU, only the crisis countries of Southern Europe fare worse. This report delivered to the French Council of Economic Analysis analyzes the causes and consequences of this alarming trend. In addition,...
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Promoting youth employment in Europe: Evidence-based policy lessons
Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. Based on the existing empirical evidence on different policy options, this chapter draws lessons for future policy making in order to effectively promote youth employment in Europe. In conclusion,...
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2008
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263713
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2007
In order to address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the effect of a minimum wage. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms engage in Bertrand competition, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. Two treatments are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268802
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Do Legal Standards Affect Ethical Concerns of Consumers? An Experiment on Minimum Wages
Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2012
To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the consumers exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441805
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Do legal standards affect ethical concerns of consumers?
Danz, David; Engelmann, Dirk; Kübler, Dorothea - 2020
To address the impact of regulation on ethical concerns of consumers, we study the example of minimum wages. In our experimental market, consumers have monopsony power, firms set prices and wages, and workers are passive recipients of a wage payment. We find that the majority of consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290365
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Friendly fire - the trade impact of the Russia sanctions and counter-sanctions
Crozet, Matthieu; Hinz, Julian - 2016
Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change … in the policies of foreign governments by damaging their economy. However, sanctions are not costless for the sending …. We first gauge the impact of the sanctions' regime using a structural gravity framework and quantify the trade losses in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561848
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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; der … - 2017
We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...
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