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Leveraging wage subsidies to facilitate fair wages and increase social welfare
Blumḳin, Tomer; Pinhas, Haim; Zultan, Ro'i - 2017 - This version: May 31, 2017
higher wages. The standard literature stipulates that the identity of the entity that is statutorily entitled for the subsidy … wages with the gift of exerting higher effort. Thus, if a wage subsidy is implemented by indirectly subsidizing employers …, employers face a lower cost of labor and increase their wages, leading workers to reciprocate with higher effort and …
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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers
Paggiaro, Adriano (contributor); Rettore, Enrico (contributor) - 2008
-employment probabilities and wages over the 36 months subsequent to enrolment in the programme. The average treatment effect is identified via …
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Do firms benefit from active labour market policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013 - This version: September 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
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Estimating participation responses using transfer program reform
Bastani, Spencer; Moberg, Ylva; Selin, Håkan - 2016
In this paper we estimate labor force participation responses for married women in Sweden using population-wide register data and detailed information about individuals' budget sets. For identification we exploit a reform in the system for housing allowances in 1997 which affected participation...
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...
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Subsidies for wages and infrastructure : how to restrain undesired immigration
Fenge, Robert (contributor); Meier, Volker (contributor) - 2006
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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
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Work-sharing : an efficiency-wage analysis
Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2000
This paper evaluates two approaches to work-sharing by examining both within the same macro model. The standard approach involves imposing a quantity constraint on labour market participants (a maximum number of standard hours for each worker). This approach is compared to a revenue-neutral...
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Short-time work subsidies in a matching model
Meier, Volker - 2018
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Testing theories of job creation : does supply create its own demand?
Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Eriksson, Stefan (contributor) - 2006
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