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Voluntary public unemployment insurance
Parsons, Donald O.; Tranæs, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 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 …
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Flexicurity : labour market performance in Denmark
Andersen, Torben M. (contributor);  … - 2007
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From excess to shortage : recent developments in the Danish labour market
Andersen, Torben M. - 2003
The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate … unemployment insurance system. This paper offers an overview of the developments in the Danish labour market during the 1990s, and … reviews the major policy shifts, as well as possible explanations of the remarkable reduction in unemployment. …
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Do excessive wage increases raise imports? : theory and evidence
Malley, James R.; Moutos, Thomas - 2001
This paper uses a model of trade in vertically differentiated products to examine the effects of excessive wage increases (i.e. above productivity) on the volume of commodity imports. The model predicts that for commodities, in which the country has comparative advantage in high quality...
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Growth of income and welfare in the U.S. 1979-2011
Komlos, John - 2016
We estimate growth rates of real incomes in the U.S. by quintiles using the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) post-tax, post-transfer data as basis for the period 1979-2011. We improve upon them by including only the present value of earnings that will accrue in retirement and excluding...
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Early retirement and social security : a long term perspective
Conde-Ruiz, José Ignacio (contributor);  … - 2005
We provide a long-term perspective on the individual retirement behaviour and on the future of retirement. In a Markovian political economic theoretical framework, in which incentives to retire early are embedded, we derive a political equilibrium with positive social security contribution rates...
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The generalized Alchian-Allen theorem
Minagawa, Junichi; Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 2012
The Alchian-Allen substitution theorem states that an increase of the prices of two similar goods by the same amount leads to a relative increase in the compensated demand of the more expensive good. In this paper we generalize this theorem to ordinary demand functions and show under which...
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Population growth and carbon emissions
Casey, Gregory; Galor, Oded - 2016
We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that...
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Is the discretionary income effect of oil price shocks a hoax?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
The transmission of oil price shocks has been a question of central interest in macroeconomics since the 1970s. There has been renewed interest in this question after the large and persistent fall in the real price of oil in 2014-16. In the context of this debate, Ramey (2017) makes the striking...
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Why are average hours worked lower in richer countries?
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Lagakos, David; … - 2020
Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...
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