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Europe vs. America : Institutional Hysteresis in a Simple Normative Model

Di Tella, Rafael - 2006

We show how the differences in US and European institutions can arise in a normative model. The paper focuses on the labor market and the government's decision to set unemployment benefits in response to an unemployment shock. The government balances insurance considerations with the tax burden...

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Can active labor market policy be counter-productive?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search …

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, Rene - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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Designing unemployment benefits in developing countries : for unemployment benefit programs, the key policy issues are the level of benefits and subsidies and the types of taxes us...

Robalino Aguirre, David A. - 2014

In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts...

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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate : Evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael - 2008

This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...

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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States

Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients during the Great Recession. The three programs that emphasized monitoring and service referrals reduced UI receipt but had minimal effects on employment and...

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Job Search, Unemployment Insurance, and Active Labor Market Policies

Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Schmieder, Johannes; Weber, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This chapter, prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics, presents a comprehensive overview of how labor economists understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market policies (ALMP). It focuses on synthesizing key...

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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance

Mueser, Peter; Troske, Kenneth R.; Gorislavsky, Alexey - 2003

matching and a variety of methods using propensity score matching. In each case, we consider estimates based on levels of post … propensity score matching is generally most effective, but the detailed implementation of the method is not of critical …

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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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Labour market dynamics and worker heterogeneity during the Great Recession : evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Kramer, Anica; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 19, pp. 1-29

Using harmonised micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...

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