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Reducing severance costs or subsidizing permanent job creation: Which policy is more effective to reduce duality?
Osuna, Victoria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755198
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Layoff Taxes, Unemployment Insurance, and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Ahrens, Steffen; Nejati, Nooshin; Pfeiffer, Philipp L. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
search and matching frictions and incorporate a US unemployment insurance experience rating system. Layoff taxes based on … experience rating finance the cost of unemployment benefits and create considerable employment adjustment costs. Our framework … reproduces the negative correlation between vacancies and unemployment, i.e., the Beveridge curve. Simulations show that the …
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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung, Das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es …
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Incentives and Complementarities of Flexicurity
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755178
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Interactions between Employment and Training Policies
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755249
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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955894
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Unemployment in the European Union: A dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
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