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people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the … people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
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individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary gains to employment for …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …
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. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work … incentives are even higher if the time horizon is extended to more than one year, pointing at an overestimation of the …
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theory we then provide a summary of empirical estimates and the methodology underlying the studies. Our conclusion is that … in the UK. We find that the participation of low education men is somewhat more responsive to incentives than previously …
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We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
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effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven …
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This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model's parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
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We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal contribution of a worker, and the marginal contribution...
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