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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms

Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a major change in child-subsidy policy in Germany in 2007 designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity leave benefit system that paid a maximum of 300 Euro for...

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. -- Institutions ; incentives ; reforms …

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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - 2009

Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...

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Labour supply incentives, and income support systems in Estonia

Võrk, Andres - 2009

, such as unemployment insurance benefits, parental benefits, a fully funded pension scheme together with earnings … or increase labour effort, affecting people both with low and high earnings. In case of unemployment benefits and early … long-term unemployment and it is vital that they are encouraged to return to the labour market. -- Labour supply incentives …

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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career

Drange, Nina - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...

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What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision When the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change?

Selin, Hakan - 2012

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses' retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...

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