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A German policy experiment from 2012 allows me to identify the short-run and longrun causal effects of decentralization on the placement efficiency of public employment services (PES). I exploit variation over time and across districts with different types of PES in a difference-in-differences...
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In this paper we shed light on the relationship between labor market policy, entrepreneurship and youth unemployment … macroeconomic policies were largely inefficient in reducing high levels of (youth) unemployment after 2007. We rise the question why … in a situation of low inflation rates, an increase in (youth) unemployment had been observed although the labor market …
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Over the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment and price stability has been discussed at length in the literature. A different issue has received relatively little attention - namely, the concern that even when the ELR...
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and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …
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. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …
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German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long …-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare …-run (noncyclical)unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …
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wages tend to increase (i) unemployment, (ii) functional income inequality, and (iii) personal income inequality. We further …
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public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy … experiments suggest that reducing the size of public employment reduces unemployment in lower productive regions while allowing …
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This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general … regulations lead to a simultaneous reduction in informality and unemployment. The difference between these two policy options lies …
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-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … of the search-matching theory. -- job creation ; involuntary unemployment ; search-matching ; labor demand …
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