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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?
Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326419
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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?
Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
unemployment is affected by different labour market institutions (LMI) such as labour taxes, unemployment benefits, employment …The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763748
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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413675
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When short-time work works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881536
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451411
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter A.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1999
-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782757
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Short-time work compensations and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404834
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Short-time work compensation schemes and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120538
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When Short-Time Work Works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931638
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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002
of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262669