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Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - University <Mannheim> / Department of Economics - 2003
and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives …
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Dynamic Effects of Unemployment Insurance Reform
Greulich, Katharina - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
We study the transition dynamics and welfare effects of reducing unemployment benefits in a Mortensen …
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Part-Time Unemployment andOptimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-timeunemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as astepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflowfrom unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-timeemployment. We …
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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
unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empiricallyinvestigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipientsunder the Chilean program …. This is a unique, innovative program that combines socialinsurance through a solidarity fund (SF) with self-insurance in …
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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
distributed unequally across workers. As a result,optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is … positivepredictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are muchlarger because unemployment risk is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486873
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Social and Occupational Security andLabour Market Flexibility in Sweden:The Case of Unemployment Compensation
Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labourmarket. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension systemare two frequently mentioned examples of that policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862558
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Social Networks and Employment - An Experimental Analysis
Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Fischer, Sven; Güth, Werner - Sonderforschungsbereich Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen … - 2006
There is robust field data showing that a frequent and successful way of looking fora job is via the intermediation of friends and relatives. Here we want to explore thisexperimentally. Participants first play a simple public good game with two interactionpartners friends, and share whatever...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864265
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Welfare Reform: Learning From American Mistakes?
Wilson, William J.; Mulgan, Geoff; Hills, John; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
This report summarises presentations and discussion at a seminar, organised by LSE Housingand CASE, which took place at the London School of Economics on 7th July 1998. The eventwas chaired by Professor Howard Glennerster (LSE and Chairman of STICERD), and thespeakers were Professor William...
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The Recession of 2001 and Unemployment Insurance Financing
Vroman, Wayne - Urban Institute <Washington, DC> - 2005
[...]This paper examines the recent recession, with particularattention given to developments in the labor market and in UI program financing. Its three objectives are to describedevelopments in the macroeconomy and in the labor marketthat have relevance for UI funding issues, to present...
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Actual Federal Reserve Policy Behavior and Interest Rate Rules
Fair, Ray C. - Yale University <New Haven, Conn.> / Department of Economics - 2001
[...]It seems clear that the Federal Reserve’s policy behavior overthe 1979:4-1982:3 period (which I refer to as the “earlyVolcker” period) differed from that of other periods.1 Thestated policy of the Federal Reserve during this period was tofocus more on monetary aggregates than it had...
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