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The Danish flexicurity model has attracted attention among policymakers in Europe, because it suggests that a flexible …-2002, the paper identifies the elements of the flexicurity model that may have contributed to the low unemployment rate. A …
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: Denmark, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. The starting point of the paper is the concept of "flexicurity", viewed as a … introduction of flexicurity arrangements, as the Danish and Dutch cases show …
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refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two … alternatively, their education is not recognized in Denmark. Hence, there may be no demand for their skills. The empirical question …;quasi-naturalquot; experiment, in which the rules for welfare benefits in Denmark changed rather dramatically. Refugee immigrants obtaining …
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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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Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a difference-in-differences approach, in each of two datasets statistically and economically significant...
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This paper uses the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type proposed by García-Pérez and Osuna (2014) to study the effectiveness of subsidizing permanent job creation as a strategy to reduce labour market segmentation between permanent and temporary contracts. The...
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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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This paper introduces endogenous on-the-job training in the job creation and destruction model of the search and matching type by García-Pérez and Osuna (Dual labour markets and the tenure distribution: Reducing severance pay or introducing a single contract, 2014). The objective is to compare...
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The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy prescriptions rest on different macroeconomic theories, and our...
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