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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 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...

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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

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