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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …
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This paper studies the earnings and employment consequences of involuntary job loss in Sweden during the crisis years … that experienced the largest number of job losses. While public service employment traditionally has been perceived as … from downsizing but most went on unaffected at least considering earnings and employment. From a policy perspective this …
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, namely, the employment shift from industry and agriculture to services. The second contribution of the paper is the focus on …
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This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...
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consequently lead to higher labor market turnover, higher welfare and increased wage inequality, while the effect on employment is … ambiguous. Ceteris paribus, the effects are qualitatively similar to decreasing employment protection in form of costly firing … integration. -- employment protection ; firing margin ; trade in intermediate goods ; labor market turnover ; revenue risk …
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, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments … unemployment ; firms' entry and exit ; employment volatility …
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