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This paper analyzes trends and outcomes in Sri Lanka's labor markets and seeks to assess the likely impacts of labor market reform. A key question is whether the likely losses for some workers from labor market deregulation is justified by gains in the number of jobs? And are potential losers...
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There is wide concern that migration flows may undermine the financial viability of generous welfare arrangements. The discussion focuses on welfare arrangements as attractors of migrants, suggesting that the issue does not pertain to migrant workers. However, this overlooks how welfare...
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This paper builds a multi-sector, three country (centre and two peripheries), New Economic Geography model, where industrial sectors differ in the degree of scale economies and skill-intensity. The model incorporates, for the first time in this class of models, payments to the unemployed in each...
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for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benifit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
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Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...
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for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme. Based on the … improvement can be achieved if the unemployment benefit level remains unaffected by high skilled immigration whereas an overall … loss in net income cannot be ruled out if we suggest unemployment benefits to be funded by an exogenous egalitarian tax …
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Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance pools … the cost of unemployment which implies a collective bargaining in the countries that leads to excessively high wages and … inefficient insurance. Those high wages attract workers who reduce the outsourced economic cost of unemployment. Only with perfect …
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Our study compares the efficiency of centralized and decentralized unemployment insurance programs in a state union. We … unemployment insurance is organized centrally, trade unions negotiate inefficiently high wages due to a vertical fiscal externality …. The central government generally cannot provide the second-best unemployment insurance as long as migration is costly. In …
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Our study compares the efficiency of centralized and decentralized unemployment insurance programs in a state union. We … unemployment insurance is organized centrally, trade unions negotiate inefficiently high wages due to a vertical fiscal externality …. The central government generally cannot provide full unemployment insurance as long as migration is costly. In contrast …
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increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds … that the unemployment rate is affected by the existence, duration, and replacement rate of unemployment insurance. Hiring … unemployment. These results are broadly in line with the extensive literature on countries of the Organisation for Economic Co …
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