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Does the Recent Success of some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

investigate how unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … have experienced a mild increase, other countries have had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful …

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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates

Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

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Is Short-time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper offers an alternative theory for the increase in unemployment and wage inequality experienced in the United … change increases skilled wages, reduces unskilled wages and increases the unemployment rate of both skilled and unskilled …

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labour supply...

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Retaining through training; even for older workers

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak ‘institutions’, including … political institutions that do not constrain politicians and political elites, ineffective enforcement of property rights for … more ‘extractive’ institutions from their colonial past were more likely to experience high volatility and economic crises …

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The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

enabled these groups to demand, obtain and sustain changes in institutions to protect their property rights. Furthermore, the … existing institutions placed some checks on the monarchy and particularly limited its control of overseas trading activities … the result of capitalist development driven by the interaction of late medieval institutions and the economic …

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