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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877633
to reduce the currently high unemployment among the low-skilled dramatically. Among the high-skilled, scarcities will …
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labour market policies to a more active focus on job search and employment. The policy tightened eligibility for unemployment …Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316818
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051265
The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835193
to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric …
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits …
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workfare package is not mandatory, it will reduce employment, profits, and utility levels of employed and unemployed workers …. In contrast, mandatory effort requirements will generally raise both employment and profits and reduce the tax rate. The …
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This paper bolsters Prescott’s (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
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labour market policies to a more active focus on job search and employment. The policy tightened eligibility for unemployment …Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity … model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is not automatically among them since the basic flexicurity properties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765697