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Notes on behavioral economics and labor market policy

Babcock, Linda; Congdon, William J.; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-14

Labor market policies succeed or fail at least in part depending on how well they reflect or account for behavioral responses. Insights from behavioral economics, which allow for realistic deviations from standard economic assumptions about behavior, have consequences for the design and...

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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China

Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....

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Job security and the age-composition of employment : evidence from Chile

Pagés, Carmen; Montenegro, Claudio E. - In: Estudios de economía 34 (2007) 2, pp. 109-139

and using measures of relative dismissal costs, we find that the adverse effect of job security on youth employment is …

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Active social insurance

Røed, Knut - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

The paper argues that a comprehensive activation strategy is called for – in both unemployment and disability insurance – to minimize the conflict between income insurance and work incentives and to prevent the economic crisis from causing a long-lasting decline in labor force participation....

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Introducing unemployment insurance to developing countries

Vodopivex, Milan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

The paper analyzes key labor market and institutional features of developing countries that affect functioning of unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment...

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Promoting permanent employment : lessons from Spain

Mendez, Ildefonso - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 2, pp. 175-199

This paper analyzes whether the two major labor market reforms implemented in Spain in the 1990s to reduce the share of temporary employment succeed in promoting flows into permanent employment. The 1994 reform severely restricted temporary contracts and the 1997 reform introduced a new...

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The role of short-time work schemes during the global financial crisis and early recovery : a cross-country analysis

Hijzen, Alexander; Martin, Sebastien - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …

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Arbeitsplatzverlust der Mutter kann die Entwicklung ihrer Kinder beeinträchtigen

Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 33, pp. 3-8

Der Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes ist für Arbeitnehmer meist mit erheblichen negativen Folgen verbunden - dies gilt umso mehr, wenn von den Auswirkungen Familien betroffen sind. Dabei ist nicht nur die finanzielle Situation von Bedeutung: Auch die Entwicklung der Kinder kann beeinflusst werden,...

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An empirical investigation of parametric and semiparametric estimation methods in sample selection models

Fernández-Sainz, Ana I.; Rodríguez-Póo, Juan M. - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 99-120

In this paper we analyze empirically different specifications of a sample selection model. We are interested in how the estimates vary across alternative assumptions concerning the joint conditional distribution of the sample selection equation errors, such us the specification of error...

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Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa : Jugendliche sind viel stärker betroffen als Erwachsene

Brenke, Karl - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 30, pp. 3-12

The crises of the past few years have led to a significant increase in youth unemployment in Europe. This, in turn, has … highlighted the long-standing phenomenon of well above average youth unemployment. In some countries, the youth unemployment rate …, across much of Europe, youth unemployment has become a more pressing social problem than it was a few years ago. In the EU as …

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