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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin - 2019
A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor …
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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
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Should Unemployment Insurance be Asset-Tested
Koehne, Sebastian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2013
We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … testing has two counteracting effects on welfare. On the one hand, it improves consumption insurance by introducing state … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …
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Flexicurity in Belgium : a proposal based on economic principles
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; van der Linden, Bruno - 2009
The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276983
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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies
Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2013
We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-) distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323017
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Culture, Diversity, and the Welfare State
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794195
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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
relationship between globalization and inequality. We conclude that institutions providing income insurance and education, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794198
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality: New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657909
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218286