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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009
In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than …
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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
, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Using the eye of the storm to predict the wave of Covid-19 UI claims
Aaronson, Daniel; Brave, Scott A.; Butters, R. Andrew; … - 2020
We leverage an event-study research design focused on the seven costliest hurricanes to hit the US mainland since 2004 to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429416
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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Kriz ve İşsizlik: Başarı Örnekleri ve Çözüm Önerileri
Öz, Sumru - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273667
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Effects of changes in the unemployment insurance eligibility requirements on job duration - Swedish evidence
Hägglund, Pathric - 2000
This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in Sweden. I study employment spells in 1992, 1996, and 1998 to find behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation. The results suggest that some adjustments have occured....
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Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed
Bennmarker, Helge; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Vikman, Ulrika - 2012
where workers who exhausted their benefits received unchanged transfers if they agreed to participate in a work practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321116
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Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Sweden
Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022
Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...
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Labor Market Programs, the Discouraged-Worker Effect, and Labor Force Participation
Johansson, Kerstin - 2002
This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation...
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