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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands

Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009

and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …

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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for …

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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Brugiavini, Agar - 2009

This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

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Labour supply incentives, and income support systems in Estonia

Võrk, Andres - 2009

increased average employment rates of the elderly, but also retirement through alternative schemes, most notably disability …

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Reforming the Benefit System to 'Make Work Pay': Options and Priorities in a Weak Labour Market

Immervoll, Herwig - 2012

Policies that support the unemployed, while reducing employment barriers and benefit dependency, are of particular interest in the current economic climate. This paper examines alternative policy approaches for combining adequate income support for the jobless with incentives to keep out-of-work...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries: An overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...

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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis

Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...

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