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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289841
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Market distortions and local indeterminacy: A general approach
Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - 2011
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278392
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Modern models of monopsony in labor markets: A brief survey
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Farber, Henry S.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2010
This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in labor markets. As noted originally by Joan Robinson, monopsonistic exploitation represents the gap between the value of a worker's marginal product and the worker's wage, and it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273868
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272933
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Do unemployment benefits promote or hinder structural change?
Boeri, Tito; Macis, Mario - 2008
According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we evaluate empirically the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268689
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Arbeitsmarktaustritt gleich Renteneintritt? Warum das Renteneintrittsalter nur die halbe Wahrheit ist
Arent, Stefan; Kloß, Michael - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 6, pp. 22-30
Arbeitslose erhalten mindestens 60 % des letzten Nettolohns in Form des ALG I und erwerben Rentenansprüche entsprechend 80 % ihres letzten Bruttolohns. Zudem steigt mit dem Alter die maximale Bezugsdauer des ALG I. Aus den gesetzlichen Regelungen zum Arbeitslosengeld I (ALG I) entstehen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733330
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Arbeitsmarktaustritt gleich Renteneintritt? Warum das Renteneintrittsalter nur die halbe Wahrheit ist
Arent, Stefan; Kloß, Michael - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 06, pp. 22-30
Arbeitslose erhalten mindestens 60 % des letzten Nettolohns in Form des ALG I und erwerben Rentenansprüche entsprechend 80 % ihres letzten Bruttolohns. Zudem steigt mit dem Alter die maximale Bezugsdauer des ALG I. Aus den gesetzlichen Regelungen zum Arbeitslosengeld I (ALG I) entstehen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735184
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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom
Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999
migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of … international migration and the factors influencing migration; the background to, and the development of, restrictions on … possible effects of migration on the economy at large are briefly discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262301
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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences
Barrett, Alan - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262318