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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265238
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277955
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East German unemployment: the myth of the irrelevant labor market
Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277978
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278021
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314361
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East German unemployment : the myth of the irrelevant labor market
Merkl, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage … traps. -- Unemployment ; labor market trap ; East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003732134
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The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment : breaking the link
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2017
quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625891
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The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment : breaking the link
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2017
quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111816
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper examines the labour market matching process by distinguishing its two component stages: the contact stage, in which job searchers make contact with employers and the selection stage, in which they decide whether to match. We construct a theoretical model explaining two-sided selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955922
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961441