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This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...
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Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable, they often use models of job search, but we argue...
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Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable, they often use models of job search, but we argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015118014
This paper studies the role and performance of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection during periods of crisis. To achieve this goal, the paper expands its analytical focus to include other tiers of social protection, in particular upstream...
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In this study, I use the timing and eligibility criteria of a large-scale conditional cash transfer program in Bolivian public schools to identify the efect of the program on adults’ labor supply. I find that adult females increase their labor supply due to the program, mostly through...
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Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of …
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Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of …
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Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....
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We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
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