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Boss, Alfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

not actually necessary because there is a comprehensive model called “unemployment benefit II”. Instead, the reduction of … the rate of contributions to the unemployment insurance system should be considered as a useful policy option. …

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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...

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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...

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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 …

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Active Labor Market Programs - Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggests that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an...

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...

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Who is afraid of capital mobility? On labor taxation and the level of public services in an open economy

Lorz, Jens Oliver; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This paper deals with the impact of international capital mobility on labor taxes and the size of the public sector. It employs a model of the labor market, where national trade unions arc able to set wages above the competitive level. In a closed economy, a higher labor tax raises wage demands...

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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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Der Einfluss des Erdölpreises auf die Energiesteuerprognose

Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Erdölpreisen, Kraftstoffpreisen, verbrauchten Mengen und dem Energiesteueraufkommen. Wesentliche Ergebnisse sind, dass die verbrauchten Kraftstoffmengen mit der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktion und den Erdölpreisen schwanken. Vor...

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