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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: The German experience
Caliendo, Marco - 2009
. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Formal and informal labour markets: Challenges and policy in the Central and Eastern European new EU members and candidate countries
Schneider, Friedrich; Burger, Christina - 2004
depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294504
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren T.; Kellogg, Ryan; Langer, Ashley; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342520
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Layoff Tax and the Employment of the Elderly
Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273947
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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries
Scarpetta, Stefano - 1998
differences across countries. In the major European countries, unemployment has increased dramatically over the past two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327008
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Euro-productivity and euro-jobs since the 1960s: which institutions really mattered?
Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - 2006
's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266366
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics
Huitfeldt, Henrik - 2001
This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …
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