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In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...
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While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …
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This article analyzes the effects on the West Bank economy of temporary Palestinian employment in Israel, using a new database and a computable general equilibrium model. The results show that Palestinian employment in Israel increases household incomes but distorts the operation of the West...
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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …
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Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
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During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that … hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum … wage on the probability of making a transition into and out of unemployment. We use micro-level data from the Greek Labour …
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commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …
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paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This …
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This paper examines the role of fiscal policies in the dynamics of the labor market. Through the lenses of Okun's Law, we assess how fiscal policy instruments as well as fiscal consolidation and expansion episodes affect labor market outcomes. Using a panel of 34 OECD countries over the period...
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