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We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of benefits not only depends on previous wages, but also...
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through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than …
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The theory of incentives and matching theory can complement each other. In particular, matching theory can be a tool …
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cooperative effort to control GHG emissions can provide adequate incentives for the US to move back to the Kyoto process and … assesses the participation incentives for the major world countries and regions in these three regimes. …
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This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a … designing the emission trading regime, it is possible to enhance the incentives to participate in a climate agreement. Therefore …
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einem vom Lohnabstand abhängigen Arbeitsangebot. In diesem Modell erhöht eine solche Senkung das Arbeitsangebot. Ist der …
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The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...
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The aging society and threatening old-age poverty are two major political topics in Germany for the next decades. Many modern employment biographies consist of atypical employment and discontinuities; both negatively impact the pension entitlements of the individuals. This work develops an...
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everybody. In addition, certain corrections to the way welfare is distributed are necessary in order to boost the incentives to …
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