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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate:Evidence from Denmark
Svarer, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862085
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Social and Occupational Security andLabour Market Flexibility in Sweden:The Case of Unemployment Compensation
Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labourmarket. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension systemare two frequently mentioned examples of that policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862558
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Modelling the Time onUnemployment Insurance Benefits
Bijwaard, Govert E. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862577
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Jobin the Greater Paris Area
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862780
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobileacross the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by … search frictions. We find that,contrary to general perception, wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862882
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Selection andUnemployment
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Prat, Julien - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous … rate of unemployment... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863042
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment:Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-UpProgrammes
Baumgartner, Hans. J.; Caliendo, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduceGermany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863227
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A New Regional Geography of Europe?The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholarsinterested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union memberstates. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatiallyasymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863251
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration andPost Unemployment Earnings in Germany:Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863253