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In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aimed at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist of a pension bonus, reductions in employers' social security contributions and measures...
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In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aiming at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist in a pension bonus, reductions in employers' social security contributions and measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283130
the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077458
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …
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(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
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abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662