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Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …
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matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … model as it is in the data. We show with a simple analytical calculation that in the standard job matching model, one cannot …
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. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …
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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 benefits) reduces employment in general equilibrium and also the income of low … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …
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increase in work incentives. We extend previous evaluations by examining the heterogeneity of incentive changes and employment … responses across households. Our results reveal improvements in employment only for couples with children, providing an …
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This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....
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This paper provides the first evidence on the earnings, employment and college enrollment effects of computers and … administrative data from California Employment Development Department (EDD)/Unemployment Insurance (UI) system earnings records, the …-run effects on earnings. These null effects are found along both the extensive and intensive margins of earnings (although the …
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vocational education tend to have a flatter age-employment profile than workers with an academic education, (2) individuals who … earnings, and the effects of vocational education in the developing world. …
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Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...
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