Search Results - subject:"wage subsidy"

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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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...

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Marginal Employment Subsidization : A New Concept and a Reappraisal

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2021

In this paper, we attempt to renew the interest in marginal employment subsidies. Such subsidies are paid only for a firm's additional employment exceeding some reference level and create larger employment stimuli at lower fiscal costs than general wage subsidies for all workers. If the hiring...

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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (Tnit) in Germany : Evidence from a Quasi Experiment

Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2021

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called "Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)" is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...

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Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy

Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2021

In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare between January 1994 and March...

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In-Work Policies in Europe : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2021

Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative consensus on the need for "making work pay" policies is muddied by a number of concerns relative to...

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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?

Connolly, Helen C.; Gottschalk, Peter - 2021

It is widely acknowledged that earnings subsidies promote employment by increasing rewards to labor market activity. This paper asks whether subsidies also affect job duration and wage growth. We provide an analytical framework that identifies causal links between earnings subsidies, job...

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Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

Lydon, Reamonn; Walker, Ian - 2021

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by … low wage, low quality work - this comes from the simple argument that the "poverty trap," which a wage subsidy for low … income workers induces, reduces the benefits to on-the-job training and so reduces wage growth. In fact, a wage subsidy will …

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Did the Pattern of Aggregate Employment Growth Change in the Euro Area in the Late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2021

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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Dynamic Treatment Assignment - the Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2021

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time provides a fertile ground for effect evaluations. We suggest easy-to-use nonparametric survival function...

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