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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269978
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822179
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How Effective Are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882343
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377309
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884144
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272967
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703506
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292491
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The Insider-Outsider Theory: A Survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762091
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Employment subsidies and substitutable skills: an equilibrium matching approach
Cardullo, Gabriele; van der Linden, Bruno - 2006
The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276998