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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung … Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten ein, von denen sie während der Arbeitslosigkeit Beträge abheben können. Werden …. Wir stellen detailliert dar, wie ein solches System von Beschäftigungskonten in Deutschland ausgestaltet und implementiert …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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An incentive theory of matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010

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Evaluating Unemployment Policies : What Do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?

Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

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East German unemployment: the myth of the irrelevant labor market

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage adjustment after German reunification. We model the resulting labor market traps in a search and matching framework, show that they are difficult to overcome, and provide...

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper analyses how and to which degree the Danish flexicurity concept and its various elements achieve the renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate...

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Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes

Snower, Dennis J. - 2006

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit...

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