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Women’s Labor Market Responses to Their Partners’ Unemployment and Low-Pay Employment
Keldenich, Carina - 2019
Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in … similar to that of his unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892209
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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect
Cahuc, Pierre - 2014
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413675
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When short-time work works
Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018
Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881536
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Budgetary policy and unemployment dynamics
Kaas, Leo; Thadden, Leopold von - 2001
We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001565847
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Budgetary policy and unemployment dynamics
Kaas, Leo; Thadden, Leopold von - 2001
We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment … unemployment persistence by its adverse impact on growth, and may even destabilize the adjustment path. If this is the case, a … future fiscal consolidation is needed which further raises unemployment. These results are consistent with empirical evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419352
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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274716
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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Cahuc, Pierre - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131173
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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011
2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …-rating component. -- short-time work ; unemployment ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124724
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445638
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Removing Obstacles to Employment for Women in Ireland
Cournède, Boris - 2006
Women have contributed a great deal to Ireland's economic growth, including by joining the labour force in large numbers. The rise in female participation since 1990 has been amongst the strongest in the OECD, but from a low base. Female participation rates remain below the OECD average for all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446629