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Minimum Wages and Employment
Neumark, David; Wascher, William L. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in theUnited States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage researchbeginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existingestimates and, accordingly, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863330
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486963
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Incentive Effects of Unemployment InsuranceSavings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
Reyes Hartley, Gonzalo; Ours, Jan C. van; Vodopivec, Milan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipientsunder the Chilean program … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empiricallyinvestigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … find that for beneficiaries using theSF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360606