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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

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Hyatt, Henry R. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

As part of a more general process of employment reallocation from less to more productive employers, job-to-job flows tend to be beneficial for productivity and for workers. Thus, when this rate slows, it is important to understand why. In the US, for example, the job-to-job flow rate is now at...

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Should severance pay be consistent for all workers?

Pérez, J. Ignacio García - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

The trend towards labor market flexibility in Europe has typically involved introducing legislation that makes it easier for firms to issue temporary contracts with low firing costs, while not changing the level of protection that is in place for permanent jobs. This has created a strong...

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New firms entry, labor reallocation, and institutions in transition economies

Bruno, Randolph Luca - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing state enterprises, reforming labor markets, compensating laid-off workers, and fostering job creation through new private firms. After privatization, the focus shifted to...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

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The internet as a labor market matchmaker

Kuhn, Peter - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Since the internet’s earliest days, firms and workers have used various online methods to advertise and find jobs. Until recently there has been little evidence that any internet-based tool has had a measurable effect on job search or recruitment outcomes. However, recent studies, and the...

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The internet as a labor market matchmaker

Kuhn, Peter - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

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Unemployment benefits and unemployment

Moffitt, Robert A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

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Youth bulges and youth unemployment

Lam, David - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

The youth population bulge is often mentioned in discussions of youth unemployment and unrest in developing countries … unemployment is mixed. It should not be assumed that declines in the relative size of the youth population will translate into … falling youth unemployment in coming decades without further policy measures to improve the youth labor market. …

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Do case workers help the unemployed?

Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...

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