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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19: A review of policy responses
Marx, Paul; Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022
This paper provides an overview on the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country. This document provides a comparative overview of the different measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320007
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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19 : a review of policy responses
Marx, Paul; Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022
This paper provides an overview on the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country. This document provides a comparative overview of the different measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357198
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Low Pay as an Alternative to Public Direct Job Creation? Lessons from the German Case
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204373
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Volkswirtschaftslehre-Lehrstühle, Gutenberg School of … - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386039
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386635
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884201
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Is it socially efficient to impose job search requirements on unemployed benefit claimants with hyperbolic preferences?
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: Journal of Public Economics 113 (2014) C, pp. 80-95
DellaVigna and Paserman (2005) and Paserman (2008) have shown that imposing job search requirements on sophisticated unemployed benefit claimants with hyperbolic time preferences is Pareto improving in that it raises welfare for the unemployed, by limiting harmful procrastination, and for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776967
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Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653215
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A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015
standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look … at active labor market policies such as training, subsidized employment and public work and investigate which kind is … most effective for the reintegration of long-term unemployed persons. Subsequently, the special role of Public Employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345380
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Low pay as an alternative to public direct job creation? Lessons from the German case
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348250