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Our search model combines two search methods, the public employment service (PES) and random search. The separation …-term (STU) and the long-term unemployed (LTU) randomly search for a vacancy. During the last round the PES matches registered … than the STU. The effects of the hiring subsidy and of profiling techniques to increase the effectiveness of the PES depend …
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The search model contains two matching technologies, the public employment service (PES) with its type … placed by the PES search for jobs. The placement activity of the PES increases the bargained wages, reduces active job search …Das Suchmodel umfasst zwei Matching-Technologien, die des PES mit typspezifischen Registern für Arbeitslose und …
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service (PES) and random search. The eligibility of a new match depends on the applicant's unemployment duration and on the … the search effectiveness of the PES, crowd out the active jobseekers and reduce overall employment as well as social … welfare. Nevertheless, reforms are a visible success for the PES and its target group, as they significantly increase the …
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In April 2016, Professor Orly Lobel delivered the 12th Annual Pemberton Lecture at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Lobel asks, what is the future of employment and labor law protections when reality is rapidly transforming the ways we work? What is the status of gig work and what are the...
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The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a shortcoming. There is a need for a setting where workers' productivity depends on employment...
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Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of...
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The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...
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The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a shortcoming. There is a need for a setting where workers' productivity depends on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059002
In this paper we propose a dynamic partial equilibrium model in order to explain the search behaviour of low-skilled non employed workers, when their employability decreases as the unemployment spell lengthens. We show that the unemployed react to a reduction in their current search...
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We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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