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We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform …
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...
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antidepressant prescriptions and experience a lower likelihood of filing a disability claim, as compared to non-eligible unemployed … benefit duration increases the likelihood of a cardiac event and eventual disability retirement filing. …
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During the 1980s and 1990s there was a steep rise in disability benefit claims in the UK, especially among older male … job destruction. Since that time the disability benefit system has been subject to a series of reforms all largely aimed … disability benefit claims in the modern UK labour market. We focus particularly on spatial variation in claims, and find that, in …
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). Furthermore (2), we connect this distribution with the efficient (or inefficient) location of Employment Offices in Spain. Due to … existence of asymmetric information between job seekers and firms we think that an Employment Offices increase the employment … disparities including regional fixed effect and the distance to the closest Employment Office. …
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This article empirically assesses the evolution of European regions in terms of both employment and unemployment during … reversal in employment and unemployment dynamics at a regional level during the crisis (2007-10) compared with the previous …
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people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
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people?s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
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Imagine a government confronted with a controversial policy question, like whether it should cut the level of unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the welfare gap between the employed and unemployed increase?...
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …
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