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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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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

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Globalisation and the Future of the Welfare State

Chen, Yu-Fu; Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis; Molana, Hassan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper reconsiders the link between welfare state provision, globalisation and competitiveness empirically. We challenge the conventional wisdom that welfare states, large-scale public provision of social insurance and progressive systems of redistributive taxation are incompatible with...

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The Petersberg Declaration

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Burda, Michael C.; Konrad, Kai A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Against the background of the worldwide financial market and economic crisis, leading German economists urge policymakers to maintain the reform course in labor market policy. The experts warn not to jeopardize the clearly positive effects of the recent reform efforts. The "Petersberg...

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Importing a Successful System? Simulating Different Regimes of Financing Social Security for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany with its typical Conservative welfare state regime. For our analysis, we rely on the European static...

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Old-Age Financial Protection in Malaysia: Challenges and Options

Holzmann, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This policy paper presents key findings and suggestions on Malaysia's old-age financial protection system within the context of the country's broader social security framework. The trademark policy approach focusing on job creation instead of expanding social security programs served the country...

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A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies

Commander, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on particular groups and, once introduced, tend to be persistent. This paper examines the reasons why and possible ways of overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is...

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A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database

Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

domains with macro-structural relevance (employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, wage setting). Reforms tend … improved activity rates and lower unemployment. …

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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea’s youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …

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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...

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