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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Holmlund, Bertil; Ek, Susanne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545782
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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651895
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753247
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Detecting discrimination in the hiring process: evidence from an Internet-based search channel
Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007
This paper uses data from an Internet-based CV database to investigate how factors which may be used as a basis for discrimination, such as the searchers’ ethnicity, gender, age and employment status, affect the number of contacts they receive from firms. Since we have access to essentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651842
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Unemployment benefits or taxes: How should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Ek, Susanne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment bene…fit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818821
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Unemployment benefits or taxes: How should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Ek, Susanne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818877
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854368
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854664
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …’s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. Numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419212
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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651923