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The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal … flexicurity is optimal, and where it is not optimal. …
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takes place. Finally, we evaluate the effect of a move to "flexicurity" on the employment-output elasticity in each country. …
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takes place. Finally, we evaluate the effect of a move to 'flexicurity' on the employment-output elasticity in each country. …
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This paper considers the role of flexicurity when jobs must be reallocated from a declining, traditional sector to a … the tax schedule with three pillars of ‘flexicurity’. The optimal policy includes (i) a progressive wage tax schedule; (ii …
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Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Denmark is often highlighted as a "flexicurity" country with lax employment protection legislation, generous …
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securities, fair risk-sharing between employees, employers and the state and 'negotiated flexicurity' calling for a higher …
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The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the longterm unemployed) and are provided only for a...
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