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Hundert Punkte für mehr Beschäftigung
Siebert, Horst - 1996
das grundsätzliche Problem der Diskrepanz zwischen Angebot und Nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt. Es kann heute nicht mehr als … Arbeitslebens zugewiesen. Im Grunde muß für den Arbeitsmarkt gelten: Wer die Tarife (die Löhne) setzt, ist auch für die Mengen (also … Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit) verantwortlich. Alle Ansatzpunkte am Arbeitsmarkt werden fehlschlagen, die daran vorbeigehen …
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
unverzichtbar. Die Unternehmen sind ebenso in der Pflicht, sich der Zeitenwende auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu stellen, wollen sie … zwischen Gewinnern und Verlierern auf dem Arbeitsmarkt einhergehen. Die Arbeit geht uns nicht aus, sie erfordert aber mehr denn …
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Euro-productivity and euro-jobs since the 1960s: which institutions really mattered?
Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - 2006
How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe, relative to industrialized Pacific Rim countries? Many studies have tackled this question, with mixed and often unclear results. This paper proposes an eclectic comparative economic...
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...
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Old Europe ages: Can it still prosper?
Börsch-Supan, Axel; Ludwig, Alexander - 2009
Population aging will be a major determinant of long-run economic development in industrial and developing countries. The extent of the demographic changes is dramatic in some countries and will deeply affect future labor, financial and goods markets. The expected strain on public budgets and...
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The work capability assessment and a "real world" test of incapacity: Considerations from, and for, quantitative research
Berthoud, Richard - 2011
The Work Capability Assessment governs entitlement to the Employment and Support Allowance - the social security benefit for people who are incapable of work. It is based on rules which decide entitlement according to the combination of impairments experienced by the claimant. This paper...
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The impact on incentives of five years of social security reforms in the UK
Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom - 2002
The UK's Labour Government has expanded means-testing of social security but attempted to do so while minimising the disincentive effects typically associated with such an approach. We test whether it has succeeded by reviewing the effect of 5 years of reforms on a range of incentives across the...
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Five years of social security reform in the UK
Brewer, Mike; Clark, Tom; Wakefield, Matthew - 2002
The current Labour Government was elected in 1997 with few specific social security proposals. This paper argues that after five years, consistent trends in social security policy have emerged: there is a willingness to increase benefits; a “work-first” focus; increasing centrality for...
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Couple's behaviour in the Brazilian labour market: The influence of social security and individual characteristics on married individuals' labour supply decisions
Queiroz, Bernardo Lanza; de Souza, Laetícia Rodrigues - 2013
In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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