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Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

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The dynamics of immigrant welfare and labor market behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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Bismarck versus Beveridge : which unemployment compensation system is more prone to labor market shocks?

Beissinger, Thomas; Bresse, Oliver - 2001

Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive feature of the analysis is the comparison of both...

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Dynamic efficiency and Pareto optimality in a stochastic OLG model with production and social security

Barbie, Martin; Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok - 2000

We analyze the interaction between risk sharing and capital accumulation in a stochastic OLG model with production. We give a complete characterization of interim Pareto optimality. Our characterization also subsumes equilibria with a PAYG social security system. In a competitive equilibrium...

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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

Using data from the first eleven waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel this study investigates the dynamic effects of health shocks on employment and economic wellbeing of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment...

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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2002

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Fostering within-family human capital investment : an intragenerational insurance perspective of social security

Barbie, Martin - 2002

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Transition from school to work : search time and job duration

Bratberg, Espen - 1998

longer than other individuals at the same educational level. Females appear to have lower reservation wages when entering the … labour market (shorter search time and lower wages). They also stay in the first job longer than males do. The search …

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a "Solovian zoneʺ where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey

Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...

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