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Modelling Financial Incentives To Get Unemployed Back To Work

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

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behaviour

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set …-up allows us to distinguish between the effects of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effects … that discourage the unemployed from risking benefit sanctions (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter …

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Monnet's Error?

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...

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Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the WDN Survey

Bertola, Giuseppe; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus; Hoeberichts, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem’s Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in...

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EMU, EU, capital market integration and consumption smoothing

Christev, Atanas; Melitz, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This empirical study of the impact of EMU on capital market integration and consumption smoothing comes to three conclusions: first, EMU promotes members’ holdings of foreign assets and foreign liabilities; second, no benefits of consumption smoothing result; third, EU membership, not a single...

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Commercial Links Between Western Europe and East Asia: Retrospect and Prospects

Anderson, Kym; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

East Asia has rapidly become the third centre of gravity for global economic activity. North America is relatively well integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy developments over the next decade or so will strengthen...

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Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions

Casella, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The thesis of this Paper is that more transparent, rule-bound and subtle mechanisms for policy coordination will be needed to ensure the success of an enlarged European Union. A common policy is a public good with distributional implications. Economists have developed a large number of plausible...

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