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What have we learned? : assessing labor market institutions and indicators
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - 2008
In den letzten Jahren hat sowohl die Anzahl der Studien zu den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wirkungen von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen als auch die Zahl der vorhandenen Indikatoren zur Messung dieser Institutionen sehr stark zugenommen. Gut zehn Jahre nach Nickells (1997) maßgeblichem Beitrag über den...
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The minimum wage in the dominant firm model
Shilov, Andrey; Tourovsky, Boris - 2008
In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich die Einführung eines Mindestlohns in einem 'Dominante-Firma-Modell' auswirken wird. Wir haben gezeigt, dass in einer arbeitsintensiven Industrie, die von einem Großunternehmen dominiert wird, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns kurzfristig zu...
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Market Regulation, Labor Policies and the Wage-Productivity Gap
Tilli, Riccardo - 2017
wedge, active labor market policies, employment protection for temporary workers and union density, while product market …
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The Perverse Effects of Partial Labor Market Reform : Fixed Duration Contracts in France
Blanchard, Olivier J.; Landier, Augustin - 2008
such a partial reform of employment protection may be perverse. The main effect may be high turnover in fixed-duration jobs …
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003
Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ?unemployment invariance hypothesis,? according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...
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Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates that … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …
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Interactions between employment and training policies
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies stimulate the … employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training policies. Moreover …
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