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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316994
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Can higher employment levels bring lower poverty in the EU? : regression based simulations of the Europe 2020 target
Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2011
work. Two sensitivity checks are included: giving priority in job allocation to jobless households and imputing low instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516889
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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484032
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The impact of labor market reforms on income inequality : evidence from the German Hartz reforms
Immel, Lea - 2021
In this paper, I study the distributional consequences of the German Hartz reforms, a set of four comprehensive labor market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431602
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Income support for non-covered workers during COVID-19 : a review of policy responses
Marx, Paul; Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf; Brunner, Johannes - 2022
This paper provides an overview on the income support measures for non-covered workers implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis, describing the collection of measures and policies in place in each selected country. This document provides a comparative overview of the different measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357198
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of approximate welfare efficiency (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277966
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Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wage Hikes : A Spatial Job Search Approach
Zhang, Weilong - 2019
This paper develops and estimates a spatial general equilibrium job search model to study the effects of local and … heterogeneous in terms of location and education types, engage in random search and can migrate or commute in response to job offers … Workforce Indicators (QWI). The estimated model is used to analyze how minimum wage policies affect employment, wages, job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895744
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Is There a Trade-Off between Unemployment and Inequality? No Easy Answers : Labor Market Problems in the United States Versus Europe
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2001
Blank considers how the flexibility of U.S. labor markets and the regulation and redistribution policies of European labor markets may determine employers' responses to worldwide economic transformations that result in increasing wage disparity in the United States and continuing high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216590
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Inequality in the Spanish Labor Market During the COVID-19 Crisis
Lariau, Ana; Liu, Lucy Qian - 2022
well as women are the most affected by the COVID-19 shock in terms of job loss rates. The differential impacts were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295139
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We call this scenario "vibrant". It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533168