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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Parsons, Donald O.; Tranaes, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - CESifo - 2015

public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …

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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2005

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - CESifo - 2008

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk ofunskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …

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Getting People into Work: What (if Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?

Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are...

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Time Limits on Welfare Use under Involuntary Unemployment

Holzner, Christian; Meier, Volker; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2004

The impacts of introducing or tightening time limits on welfare use are studied in an efficiency wage model. Those losing access to regular benefits receive some smaller benefit, which can be interpreted as food stamps. Stricter time limits raise both employment and profits and generally reduce...

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Tax Credits, Income Support and Partnership Decisions

Anderberg, Dan - CESifo - 2007

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a £100/week welfare benefit “partnership penalty” reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...

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Performance of Young Adults: The Importance of Different Skills

Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - CESifo - 2013

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...

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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining

Karagözoglu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010

negotiations following the production. By means of a laboratory experiment, we systematically investigate their role for the whole … coarse performance information lead to bargaining asymmetries. In addition, we find that bargainers’ subjective entitlements … subjective entitlements together with the differences in entitlements between better and worse performers influence the whole …

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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008

In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...

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