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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the … sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the …
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Household Income Volatility and Tax Policy : Helping More and Hurting Less, Testimony Before the U.S. Joint Economic Committee
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, income volatility, especially when it involves income declines, imposes significant hardships on American families. It heightens stress about finances and may increase household living expenses. These hardships are most pronounced for middle-and...
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
verwenden wir, um die Auswirkungen der Hartz-Reformen der Jahre 2003 bis 2005 auf den Arbeitsmarkt zu bewerten. In der Tat … Hartz-Reformen verblieben. …We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting …
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism : An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2021
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reforms from the perspective of the...
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We exploit in a difference-in-differences approach a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the...
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285842
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288066
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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357422
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Forecasting with a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2014
labor market matching function. In theory, higher mismatch lowers matching efficiency which increases the risk that the … findings can be improved by a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function. For this purpose, we construct so … der Prognosegüte der Matching-Funktion. Theoretisch sinkt die Matchingeffizienz mit höherem Mismatch, wodurch das Risiko …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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