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speed and depth of the reforms are remarkable, mainly aimed at activating people by increasing their incentives to take up …
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speed and depth of the reforms are remarkable, mainly aimed at activating people by increasing their incentives to take up …
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The German workfare scheme "One-Euro-Jobs", which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients …
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Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...
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through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than …
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(financial) incentives. The outflow is much more difficult to affect, in particular we could not find any evidence of substantial … positive effects of active labor market programs (which are frequently offered in the Netherlands). -- institution ; incentives …
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Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some...
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Entitlement conditions are a little explored dimension of unemployment insurance (UI) schemes. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify for UI benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data...
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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