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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 2, pp. 08-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056458
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Job Search Monitoring and Sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 2, pp. 26-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056471
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Der sächsische Arbeitsmarkt im April 1996
Schreiber, Carsten - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 03 (1996) 03, pp. 15-19
Infolge des verspäteten Frühjahrsaufschwungs fiel die Arbeitslosenzahl in Deutschland in diesem Jahr erst im April unter die Vier-Millionen-Marke. Insgesamt wurden 3,967 Mill. Menschen ohne Arbeit registriert, 174.300 weniger als im März, aber 362.000 mehr als im April 1995. In ähnlicher...
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Jobs and Livelihoods Mapping the Landscape
IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2014
The Indian labour market is charcaterised by abysmally low participation of women in the labour market, enormity of low wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour market scenario in India from different angles,...
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Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2011
This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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Structural and frictional unemployment in an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous agents
Koning, Pierre; Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1994
This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277919
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Structural and frictional unemployment in an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous agents
Koning, Pierre; Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1994
This paper has been presented at the Journal of Applied Econometrics International Conference on the Micro-Econometrics of Dynamic Decision Making, in Tilburg, May 1994. We would like to thank John Rust, Arie Kapteyn and other participants at this conference for their helpful comments. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005304412
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard van den; Vroman, Susan - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 1, pp. 129-146
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085572
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Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1999
of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage …, and subsequent abolition of the minimum wage does not affect wages. The model has multiple equilibria as a result of the …
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