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renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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results concerning experiences of unemployment for the male partner show that mothers try to compensate uncertainties with …
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concerning experiences of unemployment for the male partner show that mothers try to compensate uncertainties with increased …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative aggregate shocks move the hiring cutoff into a part...
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featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the … role of structural and cyclical policies for this performance. Calibrating unemployment benefits to approximate legislation … before and after the reforms, we find a large reduction in unemployment and its duration, with the transition concluding …
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In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …
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