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Incapacity benefits and employment policy

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of...

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Wage determination and the sources of bargaining power

Manzini, Paola; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

the bargaining process itself. This approach leads to a new theory of wage determination. …

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Pension taxes versus early retirement rights

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper deals with two policy approaches to address the problem of the "pensions time bomb" by influencing private-sector pension provision. In assessing the role of private-sector pensions, it is common to concentrate exclusively on the issue of whether early retirement penalties or late...

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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a...

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The pension transfer program

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

The paper examines the following pension reform strategy that aims to defuse the pension time-bomb without giving rise to intergenerational conflict. Let people with rights to public pensions have the option of using a portion of their potential pensions to provide employment vouchers for...

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Labour-market institutions and macroeconomic shocks

Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega - 2002

Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these intitutions and the effect of institutional change depends on the macroeconomic environment. It follows that a given set of...

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Programme evaluation with multiple treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which is of high relevance in practice. For example, active labour market policies may consist of...

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....

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Employment protection, product market competition and growth

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

It is commonly argued that labor market institutions such as employment protection worsen an economy's performance and particularly so, if product markets become more competitive. Empirical evidence, however, has difficulties to detect a robust negative correlation between employment protection...

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