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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe: A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - CESifo - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534054
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979397
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405930
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2013
Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010636594
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416454
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2009
measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572514
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search. A Discontinuity Design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - CESifo - 2010
more heterogeneous. Moreover, in this region, the threat induces women to substitute sickness for unemployment benefits. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799748
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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations
Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015
We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210787
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan Jose; … - CESifo - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799735
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargainings, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - CESifo - 2010
receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596606