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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe: a discussion of some recent developments and projections

Plane, Mathieu; Döpke, Jörg; Chagny, Odile; Schmidt, … - 2001

The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...

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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing

de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …

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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2009

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...

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Work incentives?: ex post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

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Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply: Working hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard; Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy - 2011

margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical …

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …

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Employment of Mothers After Childbirth: French-German Comparison

Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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In-Work Policies in Europe : Killing Two Birds with One Stone?

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian - 2004

three European countries which experience severe poverty traps, namely Finland, France and Germany. The potential labor …

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

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