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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Interactions between employment and training policies

Oskamp, Frank (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003589213

Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment

Oskamp, Frank (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …

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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred (contributor); Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor) - 2007

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … of how such a system of UAs can be designed and implemented in Germany. To make the influence of UAs as transparent as …

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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007 - December 2007 (this revised version)

Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung …. Wir stellen detailliert dar, wie ein solches System von Beschäftigungskonten in Deutschland ausgestaltet und implementiert …We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment …

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