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Exploring the effects of integrated benefit systems andactive labour market policies: Evidence from JobcentrePlus in the UK

Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

In April 2002 Jobcentre Plus started to operate in the UK bringing together theservice of the Benefits Agency and the Employment Service. Offering a fullyintegrated benefit claiming and work placement/job-seeking service for peopleof working age this new organisation aims to strengthen the link...

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Labor Market Implications of Rising Costs ofEmployer-Provided Health Insurance

Meyer, Rébecca; Orazem, Peter F.; Wachenheim, William A. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2002

Variation in income tax policies and health insurance costs are shown to be theoretically appropriate instruments to … provide health insurance benefits in states with high marginal income tax rates and low hospitalization costs. The model … implies that over the 1983-1995 period, large increases in health insurance costs and reductions in marginal income tax rates …

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De Nederlandsche Bank - Monetary and financial statistics for the Netherlands

Nederlandsche Bank <Amsterdam>

This website of the Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) provides monetary and financial statistics for the Netherlands.

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Beispielhafte Maßnahmen für die Reintegration Älterer in den Arbeitsmarkt in Europa

Vogt, Marion - Forschungs- und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt <Wien>

Europäische Regierungen bedienen sich hauptsächlich dreier Maßnahmen, die sich explizitan die ArbeitgeberInnen wenden, damit diese ältere Arbeitslose einstellen. Es handelt sichdabei um Förderungen der Lohnkosten und allgemeine Zuschüsse einerseits, um Reduktionenvon...

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark...

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...

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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...

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