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Short-time work benefits revisited : some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …
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Germany and the United States in coronavirus distress : internal versus external labour market flexibility
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on … the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures … contrasting it with the chosen strategy in the United States. In Germany, temporary cyclical reductions in working hours are …
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Aftershocks : economic crisis and institutional choice
Hemerijck, Anton (ed.); Knapen, Ben (ed.);  … - Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid - 2009
"Aftershocks was written in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although it would be premature to presume to identify the repercussions of the crisis, it is clear that it will have profound aftershock effects in the political, economic, and social spheres. The...
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
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The Indian economy in the post-pandemic world : opportunities and Challenges
Mahendra Dev, S.; Sengupta, Rajeswari - 2023
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Maneuvering through the crisis : labor market and social policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Rinne, Ulf - 2020
The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has a severe impact on societies, economies and labor markets. However, not all countries, socio-economic groups and sectors within all countries are equally affected. Part of this difference can be related to the different role and extent of short-time work,...
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Subsidizing job creation in the Great Recession
Kitao, Sagiri; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph - 2010
We analyze the effects of various labor market policies on job creation, job destruction, and employment. The framework of Mortensen and Pissarides (2003) is used to model the dynamic interaction between firms and workers and to simulate their responses to alternative policies. The equilibrium...
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Austria's labor market during the COVID-19 crisis
Ragacs, Christian; Reiss, Lukas - In: Monetary policy & the economy : quarterly review of … (2021) 2, pp. 59-78
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Policies to help the working class in the aftermath of COVID-19: lessons from the Great Recession
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate job loss concentrated among the working class. While an unprecedented social safety net policy response successfully offset earnings loses among lower-wage...
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