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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examinesthe impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exitfrom the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility in hours of work is a useful measure topostpone retirement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486882
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Determinants of South African Women´sLabour Force Participation, 1995–-2004
Ntuli, Miracle - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A striking feature of labour supply in South Africa is the phenomenal expansion in the labourforce participation of women from 38 percent in 1995 to 46 percent in 2004. Even so, theirparticipation has been persistently lower than that of men whose participation rates were 58percent and 62...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861531
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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption toLow-Skill Labor Markets
Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have beenincreasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such asfood preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of homeproduction activities. Meanwhile the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861858
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economicsectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on thesubstitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformationbetween agriculture, manufacturing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863374
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How Do Different Entitlements to UnemploymentBenefits Affect the Transitions from Unemploymentinto Employment?
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in … age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of benefits by three months... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862081
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We arguethat selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model is isomorphic to a searchmodel under random hiring...
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Unemployment Benefits or Taxes:How Should Policy Makers Redistribute Incomeover the Business Cycle?
Ek, Susanne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income taxrates over the business cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should makeunemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle because the UI system canbe used to smooth consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486967
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Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question
Fredriksson, Peter; Söderström, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit ceiling, coupled with the fact that there are regional...
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How Viable Are Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts : Simulation Results for Slovenia
Vodopivec, Milan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology similar to Feldstein and Altman (1998), the paper examines two questions: how viable is this system as an alternative to traditional unemployment insurance (UI) system, and how the...
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