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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a...
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Flexicurity in Belgium: A Proposal Based on Economic Principles
Cockx, Bart; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2009
reformed to reconcile this new need of more flexibility with that of security for workers. The call for "flexicurity" is not …
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Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU
Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - 2012
This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant...
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Flexicurity in Denmark
Andersen, Torben; Svarer, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 4, pp. 15-20
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European flexicurity: concepts (operational definitions), methodology (monitoring instruments), and policies (consistent implementations)
Tangian, Andranik - 2006
The notion of flexicurity promotes the idea of compensation of labour market deregulation (= flexibilization) with …. To monitor effects of flexicurity policies in Europe, flexicurity indicators are constructed. The European flexicurity …Das Konzept Flexicurity umfasst die Kompensation der Arbeitsmarktderegulierung (= Flexibilisierung) durch Fortschritte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296126
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321623
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Flexicurity in Belgium : a proposal based on economic principles
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; van der Linden, Bruno - 2009
The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which relationships between workers and firms were typically long-lasting and stable. The increasing globalisation of the economy and the rapid technological and organisational changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276983
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A theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies based on education
Davoine, Thomas - 2015
The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal … flexicurity is optimal, and where it is not optimal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381923
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European Employment and the Flexicurity Option
Nunziata, Luca - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 4, pp. 21-28
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