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Sri Lanka : Unemployment, Job Security, and Labor Market Reform
Heltberg, Rasmus; Vodopivec, Milan - 2009
This paper analyzes trends and outcomes in Sri Lanka's labor markets and seeks to assess the likely impacts of labor market reform. A key question is whether the likely losses for some workers from labor market deregulation is justified by gains in the number of jobs? And are potential losers...
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Migrant workers and the welfare state
Andersen, Torben M.; Migali, Silvia - 2016
There is wide concern that migration flows may undermine the financial viability of generous welfare arrangements. The discussion focuses on welfare arrangements as attractors of migrants, suggesting that the issue does not pertain to migrant workers. However, this overlooks how welfare...
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Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander - University <Mannheim> / Department of Economics - 2003
and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005853730
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Sectoral Impact of Free Intra-EU Migration in the Presence of Unemployment Benefits
Marques, Helena; Metcalf, Hugh - 2008
This paper builds a multi-sector, three country (centre and two peripheries), New Economic Geography model, where industrial sectors differ in the degree of scale economies and skill-intensity. The model incorporates, for the first time in this class of models, payments to the unemployed in each...
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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution
Bonn, Moritz - 2011
for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benifit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281779
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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution
Bonn, Moritz - 2011
for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benefit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286354
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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution
Bonn, Moritz - 2011
for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benifit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152574
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Immigrants, labor market performance, and social insurance
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014
Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...
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The effects of high skilled immigration in a dual labour market with union wage setting and fiscal redistribution
Bonn, Moritz - 2011
for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benefit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012005
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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?
Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2021 - Revised version April 2021
Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance pools … the cost of unemployment which implies a collective bargaining in the countries that leads to excessively high wages and … inefficient insurance. Those high wages attract workers who reduce the outsourced economic cost of unemployment. Only with perfect …
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