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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822612
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274092
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed - Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 3, pp. 380-402
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764454
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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068857
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
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The gender gap in earnings losses after job displacement
Schmieder, Johannes; Illing, Hannah; Trenkle, Simon - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619460
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Evidence on job search models from a survey of unemployed workers in Germany
Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207491
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822354
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On the reliability of retrospective unemployment information in European household panel data
Kyyrä, Tomi; Wilke, Ralf A. - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2011
cross country analysis of unemployment experience. We investigate the reliability of these data and find that 26% of … unemployed respondents misreported retrospectively their unemployment status in the subsequent interview. We observe large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837882
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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany: censored Box-Cox quantile regression at work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2007
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297873