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Benchmarking Unemployment Benefits in the EU
Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556214
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Benchmarking Unemployment Benefit Systems
Stovicek, Klara; Turrini, Alessandro - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2012
This paper proposes a methodology for benchmarking unemployment benefits systems, with a view to assess reform needs and priorities. The methodology permits to assess different dimensions of unemployment benefit systems and to consider alternative relevant benchmarks. Looking at all relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558443
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A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on particular groups and, once introduced, tend to be persistent. This paper examines the reasons why and possible ways of overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884377
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999931
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: the Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051503
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; schneider, friedrich georg - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017835
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; schneider, friedrich georg - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say’s law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017836
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Die Bedeutung des Kurzarbeitergeldes im Mittelstand
Münstermann, Leonard; Schneck, Stefan; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2012
Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Nutzung der (konjunkturellen) Kurzarbeit durch mittelständische Betriebe. Es zeigte sich, dass kleine und mittelgroße Betriebe dieses Instrument deutlich seltener als ihre großbetrieblichen Pendants nutzen: im Juni 2009 ließen nur etwa 1,6 Prozent der kleinen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010981746
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Deltidsarbetslöshet och arbetslöshetsförsäkring i Sverige (Part-time unemployment and unemployment insurance in Sweden)
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … survey week but are unable to work as many hours as they wish. An ILO-resolution from 1998 defines underemployment as … (iii) worked less than a threshold relating to working time. Underemployment accounts for a non-negligible fraction of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753243
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Labour market signalling and unemployment duration: An empirical analysis using employer–employee data
Frederiksen, Anders; Ibsen, Rikke; Rosholm, Michael; … - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 1, pp. 84-86
We test the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer–employee data from Denmark. Our main findings are …: the signalling value is proportional to the proportion of employees dismissed from the workplace and the signal is uniform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603137