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This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … estimates. The research period has been characterised by high labour demand, negative supply shocks, high levels of inflation … and economic lockdowns, all of which have contributed to substantial labour-market dynamics. Our findings suggest that …
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In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … facilitate a balancing of the budget has strong adverse effects on unemployment and real GDP. …
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This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the … labour market in the midst of a lockdown. Our estimation results suggest short-term effects of lockdowns on employment … hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after entering the labour market and the 2020 cohort graduated and entered the …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity, and competition), accessibilty measures and the employment … growth of a particular industry on a particular site. We use data on employment growth of site-industries on 68 formal …
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household income, the monetary value of participating in the labour force is assessed. It is found that this monetary value is …
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We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …
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between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … externalities, which modify optimal tax formulas. I show that optimal employment subsidies (such as the EITC) phase in with income …
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up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary basis, we estimate the causal effect of UI cover on the self-employment …
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