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Private Versicherungskonten als Reformoption für die öffentliche Arbeitslosenversicherung
Bruttel, Oliver - In: Sozialer Fortschritt : unabhängige Zeitschrift für … 54 (2005) 12, pp. 290-296
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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions : an effective Tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...
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Adverse selection and moral hazard in anonymous markets
Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad - 2013
We study the effects of improvements in eBay’s rating mechanism on seller exit and continuing sellers’ behavior. Following a large sample of sellers over time, we exploit the fact that the rating mechanism was changed to reduce strategic bias in buyer rating. That improvement did not lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784129
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The labour market in CGE models
Boeters, Stefan; Savard, Luc - 2011
This chapter reviews options of labour market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labour supply side, two principal modelling options are distinguished and discussed: aggregated, representative households and microsimulation based on individual household data. On the labour demand side, we...
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010
replacement rate is lower than the current (post-reform) replacement rate in Germany. However, implementing the optimal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008651589
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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been "rigid" in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany
Boeters, Stefan - 2010
numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969884
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Qualifikationsunterschiede und die Dynamik der Arbeitsnachfrage
Kohns, Stephan - 2002
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