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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: the Case of Benefit Morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...

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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - CESifo - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...

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The Political Economy of Two-tier Reforms of Employment Protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2008

Reforms of employment protection (EPL) in Europe eased the recourse to temporary forms of employment while not reducing the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the...

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The Role of Workfare in Striking a Balance between Incentives and Insurance in the Labour Market

Andersen, Torben; Svarer, Michael - CESifo - 2008

Workfare policies are often introduced in labour market policies to improve the trade-off between incentives and … equilibrium search framework, we show that the effects of workfare policies critically depend on the response of those not in the … programme when they take into account that workfare is a condition for remaining eligible for unemployment benefits. This …

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - CESifo - 2008

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...

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Flexicurity in Belgium. A Proposal Based on Economic Principles

Cockx, Bart; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2009

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically long-lasting and stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational changes...

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Linden, … - CESifo - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Labor Demand During the Crisis: What Happened in Germany?

Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - CESifo - 2011

In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared to other industrialized countries. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardly changed. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms’ labor demand during the crisis using a firm-level...

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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2009

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...

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Tax Effects, Search Unemployment, and the Choice of Educational Type

Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - CESifo - 2005

This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals’ choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy’s skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low...

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