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The effect of employment protection on labor productivity
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - 2015
The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for...
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Drivers and effects of labour market reforms : evidence from a novel policy compendium
Adascalitei, Dragos; Morano, Clemente Pignatti - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-32
The paper analyses the determinants and short-term effects of labour market reforms, using information from a novel policy compendium that covers 110 developed and developing economies between 2008 and 2014. We find that the approval of reforms is positively associated with the unemployment...
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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors … sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …
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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States
Eamets, Raul; Masso, Jaan - 2021
There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment protection regulation, one of the most relevant aspects of labour market flexibility, and the degree of its actual...
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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid to their workers by 50% or more. Until then, overtime premiums were set by law at a relatively high level and could not be cut unilaterally. We analyse matched...
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Structural change of the production process and unemployment in Germany
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 2000
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Reforming German labor market institutions : a dual path to flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather … egalitarian labor market, the number of jobs, but also their diversity has increased. -- Germany ; labor market reforms ; atypical …
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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764076
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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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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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