Showing 1 - 10 of 390
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822067
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506085
This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It … unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is persistence in long term unemployment, and that the employment … significant financial crisis and a collapse of the housing market bubble have had large increases in unemployment and long term …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359854
Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is that people who fail to participate in economic and social life may become entrenched in disadvantage. In 2000 - 2001, a randomized trial was conducted by the Department of Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762055
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called "Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)" is a time-restricted employee subsidy for meanstested welfare recipients. We focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762068
Dieser Diskussionsbeitrag beleuchtet das Thema Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit aus der Perspektive neuerer wissenschaftlicher … vorgestellt. Schließlich werden potentielle Maßnahmen und Handlungsempfehlungen gegen Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit im Lichte der …-term unemployment from the perspective of recent contributions to the topic. We present recent empirical facts and results from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703175
This paper advocates the cautious and constitutional evolution of existing basic income schemes ("unemployment benefit …-term unemployed (gradualism strategy). The paper argues that, with regard to existing unemployment benefit II claimants, stronger …) earnings from "mini", "midi" and part-time jobs – with the aim of providing current unemployment II claimants with a powerful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822580
negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of vacancies, which is efficiently estimated using spatial … structural factors such as the evolution of long term unemployment, it is also affected by business cycle fluctuations. The role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822642
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999933