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Unemployment in Greece : A Survey of the Issues

Demekas, Dimitri G. - 2006

The Greek unemployment rate rose from 2 percent in the 1960s to 9-10 percent in the 1990s. This reflected the increase …

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Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance

Demekas, Dimitri G.; Kontolemis, Zenon G. - 2021

impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor …

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Generational Risk – Is It a Big Deal? Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks

Hasanhodzic, Jasmina - 2017

The theoretical literature presumes generational risk is large enough to merit study and that such risk can be meaningfully shared via appropriate government policy. This paper questions these propositions. It develops an 80-period OLG model to directly measure generational risk and the extent...

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Generational Risk -- Is It a Big Deal? Simulating an 80-Period OLG Model with Aggregate Shocks

Hasanhodzic, Jasmina - 2017

The theoretical literature presumes generational risk is large enough to merit study and that such risk can be meaningfully shared via appropriate government policies. This paper assesses these propositions. It develops a computational technique to overcome the curse of dimensionality and...

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Risk Sharing : Private Insurance Markets or Redistributive Taxes?

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio - 2008

We explore the welfare consequences of different taxation schemes in an economy where agents are debt-constrained. If agents default on their debt, they are banned from future credit markets, but retain their private endowments which are subject to income taxation. A change in the tax system...

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Taxation of Labor Income and the Demand for Risky Assets

Elmendorf, Douglas W.; Kimball, Miles S. - 1998

It is well known that the implicit insurance provided by labor income taxes can reduce total saving. We show that this insurance can change the composition of saving as well because the reduction in labor-income risk may affect the amount of financial risk that an individual chooses to bear....

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Precaution and risk aversion : decomposing the effect of unemployment benefits on saving

Kolsrud, Jonas - 2013

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

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Evidence on job search models from a survey of unemployed workers in Germany

Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

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Why cash transfer programs can both stimulate and slow down job finding

Mesén Vargas, Juliana; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 5, pp. 1-27

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …

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