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Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
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2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
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, unemployment and capital accumulation. First, we recover the partial equilibrium over-employment phenomenon put to the fore by …
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labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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