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Impact of Labor Market Institutions on Unemployment : Results from a Global Panel
Vandenberg, Paul - 2010
Policies and programs designed to protect workers may, paradoxically, have a negative impact on labor as a whole by increasing unemployment. A key question is which policies have this effect. Using a 3-year panel of 90 countries, the study finds that the unemployment rate is affected by the...
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance : A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart - 2013
show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job … ignores their misperception problem. In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if … job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083261
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance : A Welfare Analysis
Cockx, Bart - 2013
show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job … ignores their misperception problem.In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if … job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085044
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Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability : Does Labour Market Policy Matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike - 2013
This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087395
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Post-closure career paths of self-employed workers
Kim, MinSub - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 46 (2024) 4, pp. 49-72
This study documents self-employed workers' characteristics associated with their career paths after a business closure in order to improve employment insurance for such workers. Utilizing work history data from the Korean Labor & Income Panel Survey, a competing-risks regression model is...
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The secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it
Smith, Ralph E. - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379440
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Monitoring job search effort with hyperbolic time preferences and non-compliance : a welfare analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job … ignores their misperception problem. In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if … job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721393
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Monitoring job search effort with hyperbolic time preferences and non-compliance : a welfare analysis
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job … ignores their misperception problem. In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if … job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727068
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Unemployment and subsequent employment stability : does labour market policy matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike; Fervers, Lukas - 2013
This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU-SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700207
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A theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies based on education
Davoine, Thomas - 2015
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. Low employment protection encourages costly education...
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