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Evaluating Unemployment Policies : What Do the Underlying Theories Tell Us?
Snower, Dennis J. - 2006
The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy …--on the theories` ability to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behavior. The paper considers four types …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781938
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Unemployment and Employment Protection in a Unionized Economy with Search Frictions
Stahler, Nikolai - 2016
In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991153
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Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes : Micro Versus Macro Performances
Beugnot, Julie - 2014
unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …
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Substitution and crowding-out effects of active labour market policy
Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001489944
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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892292
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Substitution and crowding-out effects of active labour market policy
Jahn, Elke J.; Wagner, Thomas - 2000
The search model contains two matching technologies, the public employment service (PES) with its type-specific registers for workers and vacancies, and the search market where firms advertise vacancies and unemployed who have not been placed by the PES search for jobs. The placement activity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509352
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Short-time work subsidies in a matching model
Meier, Volker - 2018
labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924471
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The Microeconomic Impacts of E-Business on the Economy
Prieger, James E.; Heil, Daniel - 2014
The adoption of e-business at the microeconomic level of retail, wholesale, and labor market transactions has an enormous impact on the performance of firms and the economic welfare of consumers and workers. This article reviews, in broad outlines, the economics of e-business, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014207747
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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK
Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022
The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between vacancies and unemployed workers. This paper studies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414379
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The effects of COVID-19 on labour market matching in Austria : a regional and sectoral perspective
Christl, Michael; Kiss, Áron; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2024
-19 pandemic, overall labour market conditions were relatively stable, with mismatched unemployment returning to pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163416