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Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity
Macculoch, Robert - 2016
Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...
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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...
McVicar, Duncan - 2014
Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing...
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Should serverance pay be consistent for all workers? : single, open-ended contracts with sesrverance pay smoothly rising with seniority can decrease both unemployment and job losse...
García Peréz, José Ignacio - 2015
The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers
Rosholm, Michael - 2014
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage work sharing that increases employment, with particular advantages for … female workers. However, regulation of overtime raises employment costs, setting in motion economic forces that can limit …, neutralize, or even reduce employment. And increasing the coverage of overtime pay regulations has little effect on the share of …
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Childcare subsidy policy : what it can and cannot accomplish : what are the implications of childcare subsidies for care quality, family well-being, and child development?
Tekin, Erdal - 2014
employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …
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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and …
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The decline in job-to-job flows : an aging workface and declining entrepreneurship explain the decline in job-to-job flows only partially
Hyatt, Henry R. - 2015
As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, jobto- job flows …
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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes
Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015
for education, language, and employment. Such policies can also reduce barriers to entry, encourage naturalization, and …
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