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Do reemployment programs for the unemployed work for youth? : evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios; Mueser, Peter R.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232672
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Macroeconomic effects of UI extensions at short and long durations
Acosta, Miguel; Müller, Andreas; Nakamura, Emi; Jón … - 2023
We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335034
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Designing unemployment benefits in developing countries : for unemployment benefit programs, the key policy issues are the level of benefits and subsidies and the types of taxes us...
Robalino Aguirre, David A. - 2014
In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the … subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment … insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts are better. Unemployment insurance finances subsidies through implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414100
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The Effects of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment and Labor Force Participation : Evidence from 35 Years of Benefits Extensions
Figura, Andrew - 2015
This paper presents estimates of the effect of emergency and extended unemployment benefits (EEB) on the unemployment … ineligible for EEB back to the late 1970s. To identify these estimates, we examine how exit rates from unemployment change across … different points of the distribution of unemployment duration when EEB is and is not available, controlling for changes in labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032426
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Income tax flattening: does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269186
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Income tax flattening : does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860712
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The Global Financial Crisis and the Post-Lisbon Prospects of Enlargement
Qerimi, Qerim R.; Sergi, Bruno S. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to examine the transformative processes that are defining the region of south-east Europe in the context of global financial crisis and in the post-Lisbon era. It is also intended to illuminate the current challenges of the region’s EU integration process. Judged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192438
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Stabilizing the Macroeconomy with Labor Market Policies
Oh, Jong‐seok; Hong, Sung Wook - 2022
This study argues that aggregate demand management policies alone (which have traditionally been used to stabilize economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market policies such as work sharing programs.The use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079221
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COVID-19 and Labour Law : Argentina. Update 2 July 2020
Chiuffo, Facundo Martin - 2020
Argentina has had a profound regulatory activity to counteract the coronavirus pandemic so far and its consequences, which appear to worsen as time goes by. Based on the experience of other countries, a strict lockdown was put into place at an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095230
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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517037