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Wage Compression and Welfare in Sweden
Lindquist, Matthew J. - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2000
This paper calculates the quantitative significance of the welfare effects of wage compression in Sweden. This is done … compression lead to large welfare losses, since wage compression creates costly unemployment among low-skilled workers. This … welfare loss can be significantly reduced (but not eliminated) if firms and unions bargain over efficient labor contracts. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645493
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Job Uncertainty and Deep Recessions
Ravn, Morten; Sterk, Vincent - Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM) - 2012
We study a model in which households are subject to uninsurable idiosyncratic employment shocks, firms set prices subject to nominal rigidities, and the labor market is characterized by matching frictions and by downward in flexible wages. We introduce heterogeneity in search efficiency that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185831
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
In this paper I examine the rates at which adults in households recently receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded employment services. I also investigate the correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418261
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? Evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418275
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2013
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327584
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2012
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310739
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
In this paper I examine the rates at which adults in households recently receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded employment services. I also investigate the correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338814
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341908
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2013
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221556
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2012
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956157