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Wunsch, Conny - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

Labour market policies for the unemployed combine passive income support with active measures that aim at improving jobseekers' employment prospects. This paper extends the theoretical framework developed by Pavoni and Violante (2005a) for the optimal choice between different active and passive...

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Optimal Size and Intensity of Job Search Assistance Programs

Ribi, Evelyn - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

This paper derives the welfare optimal size and intensity of job search assistance programs in a general equilibrium model where the labor market is affected by search frictions. Both instruments have a priori ambiguous fiscal implications: their direct employment stimulating effects broaden the...

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Flexicurity and Job Reallocation

Keuschnigg, Christian; Davoine, Thomas - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2010

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with safe and risky jobs where unemployment is concentrated in a highly productive but volatile sector. Frictional unemployment arises in the process of job creation, firing and retraining for alternative employment. The paper derives an optimal...

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Corporate Taxation and the Welfare State

Keuschnigg, Christian - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2008

The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income...

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The Role of Corporate Taxation in a Large Welfare State

Keuschnigg, Christian - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

In comparing the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment, the paper derives four main results: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion, the unemployment rate and the excess burden of labor...

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Outsourcing, Unemployment and Welfare Policy

Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

Outsourcing of labor intensive activities challenges the welfare state and undermines the protection of low-skilled workers. The stylized facts are that profits are concentrated among the high-skilled, involuntary unemployment is mostly among the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance...

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Why do tougher caseworkers increase employment? The role of programme assignment as a causal mechanism

Huber, Martin; Mellace, Giovanni; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2014

Previous research found that less accommodating caseworkers are more successful in placing unemployed workers into … analysis. Analysing very informative linked jobseeker-caseworker data for Switzerland, we find that the positive employment … effects of less accommodating caseworkers are not driven by a particularly ef-fective mix of labour market programmes they use …

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A Caseworker Like Me - Does The Similarity Between Unemployed And Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2008

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers … dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points …

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Tightening the Purse Strings: The Effect of Stricter DI Eligibility Criteria on Labor Supply

Staubli, Stefan - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2009

This paper explores the labor supply effects of a large-scale policy change in the Austrian disability insurance program, which tightened eligibility criteria for men above a certain age. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results of...

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Pension Reform, Retirement and Life-Cycle Unemployment

Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime age workers. This paper investigates the impact of four often proposed policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price...

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