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Work less but stay longer : mature worker response to a flexibility reform
Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Piggott, John; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020
Reducing the eligibility age for pension benefits is considered by many as a policy that will discourage labor supply by mature workers. This paper analyzes a recent Norwegian pension reform which effectively lowered the eligibility age of retirement from 67 to 62 for a group of workers. For the...
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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand
Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023
search and matching model with heterogeneous skills and contract durations rationalizes our main findings. …
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting … good half of the positive effect of reforms on the matching efficiency remains. …Wir analysieren den Zielkonflikt zwischen Umfang und Qualität der Beschäftigung, indem wir eine erweiterte Matching …
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Job Mobility and Creative Destruction : Flexicurity in the Land of Schumpeter
Kettemann, Andreas - 2017
increase in job mobility in response to the reform. A search-and-matching model with on-the- job search and tenure …
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Job mobility and creative destruction : flexicurity in the land of Schumpeter
Kettemann, Andreas; Kramarz, Francis; Zweimüller, Josef - 2017
increase in job mobility in response to the reform. A search-and-matching model with on-the- job search and tenure …
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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
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Recent Reforms of the Tax and Benefit Systems in the Framework of Flexicurity
Carone, Giuseppe - 2010
This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact on financial incentives to work and on labour supply. Many Member States have introduced policies to “make work pay” and have targeted low-wage workers with the aim of...
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Unemployment insurance savings accounts : an overview
Valentini, Francesca (contributor) - 2008
Unemployment insurance and job protection regulations provide assistance to those who face unemployment. Unemployment insurance seems more desirable, since it does not harm flexibility in the labour markets, but it entails a moral hazard risk. Making the unemployment insurance voluntary and...
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The consequences of labour market flexibility : panel evidence based on survey data
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 1999
We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984-90. The data are based on surveys of business people in the countries covered, so the indices we use are subjective in nature. Controlling for country and time fixed effects, and using dynamic...
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Geographical job mobility and wage flexibility in Denmark
Strøm Kristoffersen, Mark - 2016
Flexibility in the labour market is important for macroeconomic stability. The Danish labour market has been highlighted as being flexible, which this study confirms using micro data from 1980 to the present. Unemployment insured workers are found to be less geographical job mobile than workers...
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