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Evaluating profiling as a means of allocating government services
Berger, Mark C.; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffrey - 2000
This paper considers the use of statistical profiling to allocate persons to alternative options within government programs, or to participation or non-participation in programs. Profiling has been used in the United States to allocate unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment...
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On the interplay between Keynesian and supply side economics
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
Conventional wisdom suggests that nominal, demand-side shocks have only temporary effects on real macroeconomic magnitudes and that the duration of their effects depends on the degree of nominal inertia. It is also argued that, in the absence of unit roots, temporary supply-side shocks also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293971
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Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2002
Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in einer kleinen geöffneten Ökonomie? Diese … sowohl die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit als auch die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit negativ. In dem Modell wird zusätzlich gezeigt …
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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
Wie kann die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit impliziert. Da der positive aus der Vakanzsubventionierung resultierende Substitutionseffekt den negativen … Staat mit Hilfe der Subventionierung von Vakanzen, eine Verringerung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit erreichen. …
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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit? Die Beziehung zwischen … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen … Arbeitslosen und mit endogen bestimmter Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit, die auf Qualifikationsverlust zurückzuführen ist, analysiert. Für …
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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment
Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297479
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297555
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Das Mannheimer Grundsicherungsmodell - der Weg zu einer effizienteren und gerechteren Grundsicherung ohne Absenkung des Arbeitslosengeld II-Niveaus
Genz, Hermann; Spermann, Alexander - 2007
Wie lässt sich die Grundsicherung in Deutschland effizienter und gerechter ausgestalten, wenn das Arbeitslosengeld II aus politischen Gründen nicht generell gesenkt werden soll und keine zusätzlichen unteren Lohngruppen durch die Tarifpartner vereinbart werden? Das Mannheimer...
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Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?
Biewen, Martin; Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...
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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008
This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
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