Showing 1 - 10 of 7,981
The paper reviews national and international experiences with different combinations of in-work benefits, subsidized employment, statutory minimum wages and implicit minimum wages defined by social assistance provisions. It calls for a cautious approach regarding the introduction of additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268100
The paper reviews national and international experiences with different combinations of in-work benefits, subsidized employment, statutory minimum wages and implicit minimum wages defined by social assistance provisions. It calls for a cautious approach regarding the introduction of additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330274
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001601309
first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in … selection. Next, the variation in immigrant characteristics across countries and visa types is discussed. The article then … different selection mechanisms and underlines the challenges for realizing aimed benefits of a skill based immigrant selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282583
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001639258
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001669897
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289841
We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020–2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840896
We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in a growth model with efficiency wages and an essential natural resource (natural capital). Considering that technical progress cannot reduce the resource content of final production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643552
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656641