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regions as well as the diverse types of job retention schemes, in particular short-time work, furlough and wage subsidy …
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After an initial policy emphasis on stabilizing jobs and income through job retention and various types of income support measures, more subsequent country responses to the economic shock generated by the COVID-19 pandemic also include policies to support labour market (re-)entry. This policy...
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market and economic measures, which ultimately also benefit younger people, youth-targeted measures are needed given the … actual policy responses in the area of youth employment during the COVID-19 crisis in 20 selected countries. If such measures …, broader policy support continues to be needed, including specific policy measures targeting youth. …
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to the different role and extent of short-time work, which is now being used more widely than during the Great Recession … temporarily. But short-time work is certainly not a panacea to "flatten the unemployment curve" - especially not in a scenario of … tools to increase resilience against economic shocks (also in areas such as education and for the provision of public …
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Der Forschungsbericht befasst sich mit der Neuausrichtung der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumente, die zum 1. Januar 2009 in Kraft getreten ist. Der Gesetzgeber verfolgte mit dieser Reform das Ziel, das Portfolio an Instrumenten zu straffen und damit transparenter und übersichtlicher zu...
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This paper presents an average treatment effect analysis of Spain's furlough program during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2020 labour force quarterly microdata, we construct a counterfactual made of comparable nonfurloughed individuals who lost their jobs and apply propensity score...
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This paper studies the relation between work and public health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Combining … administrative data on SARS-CoV-2 infections and short-time work registrations, firm- and worker-level surveys and cell phone …. WFH effectively shields workers from short-term work, firms from COVID-19 distress and substantially reduces infection …
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, little is known about which measures are effective for improving youth work impairment. A hazard rate competing risk model … extent education/training programs, have the intended effect. In other words, work-impaired youths who participate in these … measures have a higher probability of obtaining work/starting an education and a lower probability of experiencing a transition …
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In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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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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