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Recent evidence suggests that self-regulation plays an important role for labor market success. We conducted a … randomized natural field experiment embedded in an existing labor market reactivation program to examine the effect of a self …. Second, there is no overall treatment effect on (short-term) labor market reintegration, but heterogeneous effects with …
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Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) are not preserved in the presence of unemployment. In the present paper we challenge this view … and investigate capital tax competition for some arbitrary institutional setting of the labor market. We find that if the … labor market is characterized by some efficient bargaining solution, the results of Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) are …
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This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …
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interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …
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, results in welfare losses for at least a segment of the population, after a capital tax cut and a concurrent labour tax …
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labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …
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This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the …
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We assess the concentration and duration of zero tax liabilities and of transfer receipts, using data for households with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly concentrated. Nearly 68% owe no federal tax in at least one...
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