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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453727
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451838
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762441
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J van; Vikström, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528530
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An Evaluation of the Adult Education Initiative Relative Labor Market Training
Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003
duration for participants in the AEI relative to LMT. When evaluating the relative program effects on duration, one needs to … unemployment incidence, but longer duration in unemployment among the AEI participants.<p> Paper [II] uses annual wage earnings in …. Data on branches of employment indicate less mobility among the AEI participants. This is largely due to a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651998
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666681
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755178
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You Don't Know What You've Got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601063
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You Don't Know what You've got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287425
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You don't know what you've got till it's gone! : unemployment and intertemporal changes in self-reported life satisfaction
Klemm, Marcus - 2011
This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407567