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The effectiveness of employment vouchers : a simple approach.
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2000
This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (?employment vouchers? for short) in the context of a dynamic model of the labor market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment and unemployment, the analysis shows how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520261
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Monetary and labor policies under market frictions.
Merkl, Christian - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008610199
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Employment in the Keynesian and neoliberal universe: theoretical transformations and political correlations
Ioannidis, Yiorgos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Keynesian economics, labour cost has been set in the periphery of the theory, allowing labour relations to become a subject of … social-political regulation. By contrast, neoclassical economic theory and its successors place the cost of labour at the … core of the theory, which in turn means that any attempt to regulate labour relations by noneconomic criteria undermines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258546
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Wages of occupations in theory⋯ and practice
Rycx, Francois; Kampelmann, Stephan - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2011
Conventional models of earnings assume that the occupational pay structure reflects the distribution of marginal productivities. Although ubiquitious in the literature, the underlying hypothesis that wages equal marginal products rests on weak empirical footing: extant studies from the 1970s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011527
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Wages of Occupations in Theory... and Practice
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique L (2011) 4, pp. 119-131
Conventional models of earnings assume that the occupational pay structure reflects the distribution of marginal productivities. Although ubiquitious in the literature, the underlying hypothesis that wages equal marginal products rests on weak empirical footing: extant studies from the 1970s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397226
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Dale Mortensen
Lentz, Rasmus - Palgrave Macmillan
Dale T. Mortensen (born 1939) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2010 jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Christopher A. Pissarides for his work on the analysis of markets with search frictions. Together, they developed the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides Model (DMP model): an equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364188
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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371187
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Kann die Einführung des Kombilohns die Lage am Arbeitsmarkt nachhaltig verbessern?
Steiner, Viktor; Klös, Hans-Peter; Schäfer, Holger; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 55 (2002) 04, pp. 5-18
Nach dem »Mainzer Modell« erhalten Bezieher von niedrigen Erwerbseinkommen bei Neuaufnahme einer sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung Zuschüsse zu ihren Sozialversicherungsbeiträgen. Nach Meinung von Dr. Hans-Peter Klös und Holger Schäfer, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln,...
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Die Voraussetzungen des Anspruchs auf Arbeitslosenunterstützung im internationalen Vergleich
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 53 (2000) 25, pp. 12-17
Arbeitsmarkttheorie und Arbeitsmarktpolitik legen das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Höhe und die Dauer der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014318
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Politikberatung mit dem Simulationsmodell PACE-L : Möglichkeiten und Grenzen am Beispiel einer Senkung der Sozialabgaben
Feil, Michael; Zika, Gerd - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
"Der Beitrag stellt das numerische allgemeine Gleichgewichtsmodell PACE-L (Policy Analysis based on Computable Equilibrium, Labour market module) in kompakter Form vor. Dieses quantitative gesamtwirtschaftliche Modell wird am IAB zur Beurteilung von beschäftigungsrelevanten Reformvorschlägen,...
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