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Reforming the Benefit System to 'Make Work Pay': Options and Priorities in a Weak Labour Market

Immervoll, Herwig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Policies that support the unemployed, while reducing employment barriers and benefit dependency, are of particular interest in the current economic climate. This paper examines alternative policy approaches for combining adequate income support for the jobless with incentives to keep out-of-work...

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Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU

Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant...

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A Feasible Unemployment-Based Shock Absorber for the Euro Area

Brandolini, Andrea; Carta, Francesca; D'Amuri, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper contributes to the debate on the design of a centralised fiscal tool absorbing country-specific negative shocks in the euro area. Based on theoretical insights, it identifies the broad characteristics that a shock absorber based on unemployment should have in order to be...

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Social Policies for a Recovery

Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...

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Agenda 2020: Strategies to Achieve Full Employment in Germany

Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

competition between schools and universities would improve the quality of education. Selection of students into different …

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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?

Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and Mexico in the late 1990s, by 2011 CCTs had spread to 18 countries in … quality of targeting and (iii) the change in beneficiary household characteristics. We show that in most countries the … assistance. The largest programs (in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico) have achieved coverage rates around 50-55% of the poor. At the …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...

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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth

Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

of employers to hire these young people and perhaps to improve the quality of jobs available to them. …

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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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