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Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Voting

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

The framework of a general equilibrium heterogeneous agent model is used to study the optimal design of an unemployment insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and defined replacement ratio UI systems are...

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Geneses of labour market turnover: Job search and entrepreneurial aspirations on-the-job

Hyytinen, Ari; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we study the labour market behavior of employed individuals that have entrepreneurial aspirations in addition to aspirations to switch job. We analyze empirically these two “search processes” side-by-side and report three main findings: First, neither entrepreneurial...

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How to Finance Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with Search Generated Equilibrium Unemployment

Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper, the effects of alternatives to finance unemployment benefits on employment and wages are examined in a model with search generated equilibrium unemployment. It is demonstrated that employment improves if a value--added tax is levied, as opposed to a social system contribution,...

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Job search behavior of unemployed in Russia

Smirnova, Natalia V. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper explores the determinants of job search behavior, search intensity and choices of search methods of the unemployed workers in transitional Russia. We use pooled data from rounds 5-9 of the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to estimate the effects of socio- economic factors...

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ON-THE-JOB SEARCH, URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES-A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS

Bandopadhyay, Titas - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Fields (1989) proposition1 in a multi sector general equilibrium model with perfect and imperfect capital mobility2. The effects of different fiscal policies on the equilibrium rate of urban unemployment are also examined here3. The main findings are...

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Transitions from unemployment in Poland: a multinomial logit analysis

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents the multinomial logit analysis based on the individual Polish LFS data stretched over the 1997-2004 period. It's main goal is to scrutinize the determinants of outflows from unemployment at the time when the two shocks have affected the Polish economy and labor market. It...

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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

Reference: Challenge, January/February, 1979

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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THE ROLE OF DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES FOR THE ENTREPRENEURIAL

Giuseppe, Pace - EconWPA - 2003

National and local “economic development programs” – programs that provide assistance to individual businesses with tax or financial subsidies, or special public services, in order to increase local jobs or improve local businesses’ competitiveness – have become prominent and...

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Comparing the “D.V” lottery with the point system: costs, benefits and a superior alternative.

Uwaifo, Ruth - EconWPA - 2005

The diversity visa lottery popularly known as the D.V lottery is a U.S relatively new immigration policy that was … in the U.S. However, from the policy inception, immigration specialists seriously doubted the claimed objective. They … would be probably had to verify. In this paper, we review in details the D.V immigration policy program considering …

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