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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state : the case of benefit morale

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...

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How Does Exposure to Covid-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - 2021

We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the population in each country. Comparing levels of...

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How Does Exposure to COVID-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Non-experimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia I.; … - 2016

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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The 'Great Lockdown' : Inactive Workers and Mortality by COVID-19

Borri, Nicola; Drago, Francesco; Santantonio, Chiara; … - 2021

In response to the Covid-19 outbreak the Italian Government imposed an economic lockdown on March 22, 2020 and ordered the closing of all non-essential economic activities. This paper estimates the causal effects of this measure on mortality by Covid-19 and on mobility patterns. The...

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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model

Meier, Volker - 2019

demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases …

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Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment

Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Prepayment, Salience, and Welfare

Abatayo, Anna Lou; Resusodarmo, Budy - 2024

The timing of payment can enhance salience, making customers more price-responsive when paying before consumption rather than after. This study examines Indonesia's nationwide switch to prepaid electricity metering, impacting over 40 million households. We find that prepaid metering users are...

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Fair Earnings Tax Reforms

Ooghe, Erwin; Schokkaert, Erik; Serruys, Hannes - 2023

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

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