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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a …. Therefore, information that might be relevantfor economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims to overcome … sampling andcontents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future development.... …
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Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policiesand Labor Supply: The German Experience
Caliendo, Marco - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining workforce in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such asunemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and totallabor supply is of crucial...
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A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession:The Case of Denmark
Andersen, Torben M. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Flexicurity labour markets are characterised by flexible hiring/firing rules, generous socialsafety net, and active labour market policies. How can such labour markets cope with theconsequences of the Great Recession? Larger labour shedding is to be expected and thisstrains the social safety net...
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Explaining Differences in Job Search OutcomesBetween Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probabilitythat employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. Thejob finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed jobseekers, and this...
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A Steady-State Model of a Non-Walrasian Economywith Three Imperfect Markets
Wasmer, Etienne - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. Thispaper adresses this old idea by introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model ofcredit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004), I further introducesearch on the goods market. The...
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The “Great Recession” resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effectdid it have on business formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential businessincome and wealth, but on the other hand they restrict opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net...
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The Turkish Wage Curve:Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the HouseholdLabor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008.When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is evidence infavor of the wage curve only for younger and female...
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panelVectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables tounemployment are affected by financial...
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Part-Time Unemployment andOptimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-timeunemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as theyprefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy...
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemploymentand Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality andunemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to thesame externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal andinformal firms have monopoly...
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