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unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …
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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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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 -...
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
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How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …
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Entitlement conditions are a little explored dimension of unemployment insurance (UI) schemes. In this paper, we … benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data matching employment and unemployment spells, we first provide … level – through a jump in transitions from employment to unemployment – and at the macro level – through the scheduling of …
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the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level …
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The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … unemployment insurance system aiming at reducing high European unemployment rates should consider both effects. This paper provides … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from …
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729528
women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a larger share of their earnings in the two years following job … unemployment remains. In a standard decomposition framework, we document that child care imposes an important barrier to women …
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