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Studying labor market institutions in the lab: minimum wages, employment protection, and workfare : comment

Donohue, John J. - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 163 (2007) 1, pp. 46-51

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Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab : Minimum Wages, Employment Protection and Workfare

Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2021

A central concern in economics is to understand the interplay between institutions and labor markets. In this paper we argue that laboratory experiments are a powerful tool for studying labor market institutions. One of the most important advantages is the ability to implement truly exogenous...

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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36

This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...

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Active labor market programs : employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36

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Optimal unemployment insurance design : time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …

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Optimal taxation and welfare benefits with monitoring of job search

Boone, Jan; Bovenberg, Lans - In: International Tax and Public Finance 20 (2013) 2, pp. 268-292

-off between boosting employment of low-skilled agents and raising work effort of high-skilled workers. If sanctions for inadequate …

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Optimal unemployment insurance design: Time limits, monitoring, or workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - In: International Tax and Public Finance 13 (2006) 5, pp. 565-585

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … preferences for leisure. The analysis suggests that a system with monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most … offer a more generous UI replacement rate in a system with monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare …

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Free labor : workfare and the contested language of neoliberalism

Krinsky, John - 2007

Free labor? -- The workfare contract in the workfare state -- The formation of a protest field -- In the trenches -- Mapping passages through the trenches -- Claims, cognitions, and contradictions -- The contested language of neoliberalism

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Boosting productivity and inclusiveness in Lithuania

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Guzzardi, Demetrio - 2018

Productivity growth in Lithuania has slowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, holding back income convergence and making it harder to reduce further the relatively high inequality and poverty. A comprehensive approach is required to address productivity and inclusiveness...

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Interpreting experimental evidence in the presence of postrandomization events : a reassessment of the self-sufficiency project

Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - In: Journal of labor economics 38 (2020) 4, pp. 873-914

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