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Labour market developments in Germany : tales of decency and stability

Ruoff, Bea - 2016

Labour market developments in Germany can be separated into two major shocks: German reunification in the early 1990s, and the Hartz reforms in the early 2000s. In this paper it is argued that these two shocks divide the German wage bargaining system into the old labour market system, which is...

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Effects of labor reallocation on productivity and inequality : insights from studies on transition

Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Švejnar, Jan - 2016

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...

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Estimating the short run effects of South Africa's employment tax incentive on youth employment probabilities using a difference-in-differences approach

Ranchhod, Vimal; Finn, Arden - In: The South African journal of economics 84 (2016) 2, pp. 199-216

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Labor mobility, economic shocks and jobless growth evidence from panel data in Morocco

Verme, Paolo; Barry, Abdoul Gadiry; Guennouni, Jamal; … - In: Middle East development journal : a publication of the … 8 (2016) 1, pp. 1-31

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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...

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Unemployment benefits and unemployment : the challenge of unemployment benefits is to protect workers while minimizing undesirable side effects

Moffitt, Robert A. - 2014

All developed economies have unemployment benefit programs to protect workers against major income losses during spells … of unemployment. By enabling unemployed workers to meet basic consumption needs, the programs protect workers from having … recessions. If benefits are too generous, however, the programs can lengthen unemployment and raise the unemployment rate. The …

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Do case workers help the unemployed? : evidence for making a cheap and effective twist to labor market policies for unemployed workers

Rosholm, Michael - 2014

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries spend, on average, an equivalent of 0.4% of their gross domestic product on active and passive labor market policies. This is a non-negligible sum, especially in times of strained government budgets. Meetings with case workers -...

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Can minimum wages raise workers' incomes in the long run?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Moutos, Thomas - 2016 - This Draft: May 2016

Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...

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Supporting jobseekers : how unemployment benefits can help unemployed workers and strengthen job creation

Ernst, Ekkehard - In: International social security review 68 (2015) 3, pp. 43-67

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Public or private job placement services : are private ones more effective? ; analyzed public employment agencies were at least equally as successful as private ones in placing une...

Stephan, Gesine - 2016

Expenditures on job placement and related services make up a substantial share of many countries' GDP. Contracting out to private providers is often proposed as a more efficient alternative to the state provision of placement services. However, the responsible state agency has to design and...

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