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Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
Boeri, Tito; Conde-Ruiz, Jose Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2004
We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labor market risk. Different countries' locations along this trade-off represent stable, hard to modify, politico-economic equilibria. We...
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Protecting Against Labour Market Risk: Employment Protection or Unemployment Benefits?
Boeri, Tito; Conde-Ruiz, Jose Ignacio; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2003
in 2001 in Italy have precisely the same characteristics predicted by our model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272720
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The effects of the recent economic crisis on social protection and labour market arrangements across socio-economic groups
Basso, Gaetano; Dolls, Matthias; Eichhorst, Werner; … - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Daniel, Kirsten; Siebert, William Stanley - 2004
Netherlands, Italy, the UK and the US. The model?s predictions are supported using the Blanchard-Wolfers index of employment …. We test the model using annual distributions of recruits? characteristics from a 1975-95 panel of plants in Belgium, the …
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …
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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269943
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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
This paper discusses the specificities of the labor market for older workers. It discusses the implications of those specificities for the effect of labor market institutions on the employability of those workers. It shows that while unemployment benefits indexed backwards and hiring costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271319
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Employment protection and fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian reform
Prifti, Ervin; Vuri, Daniela - 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a 'fair cause' or 'justified motive' in firms...
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