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Should Local Public Employment Services Be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?
Holzner, Christian - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets : Neither Ghent Nor Centralized
Saha, David - 2015
account for the cost of higher wages as mobility allows them to partially shift the burden of unemployment to other UIs. A …
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Welfare Benefit Reforms and Employment
Aloi, Marta - 2017
We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment benefits in favour of income subsidies (social...
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The Impact of Trade on Employment, Welfare, and Income Distribution in Unionized General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Egger, Hartmut - 2010
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...
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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance
Parsons, Donald O. - 2015
Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program — a less generous, means-tested social assistance plan — completes the...
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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 displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at...
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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression Under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2021
It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage-moderating (wage-increasing) effect so that...
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Has Emu Had Any Impact on the Degree of Wage Restraint?
Posen, Adam S.; Popov Gould, Daniel - 2021
We find in cross-sectional investigations that wage restraint is either unchanged or increased following EMU in the vast majority of countries. This contradicts the predictions of a widely-cited family of models of labor market bargaining. In those, Germany would have been expected to display...
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …
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