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The dovish turnaround : Germany's social benefit reform and job findings
Weber, Enzo - 2024
On the labour markets, recent decades were characterised by structural supply-side reforms in many countries. Following … its hawkish reforms from the 2000s, Germany has recently made a dovish turnaround. Conditions in basic income support for … unemployed became more generous. Before, a temporary moratorium on sanctions had been imposed, providing a unique policy shift …
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …
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Aggregate demand, idle time, and unemployment
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - 2014
This paper develops a model of unemployment fluctuations. The model keeps the architecture of the Barro and Grossman (1971) general disequilibrium model but replaces the disequilibrium framework on the labor and product markets by a matching framework. On the product and labor markets, both...
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352791
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Environment, Health and Labor Market
Pautrel, Xavier - 2017
We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...
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Recession and Deflation?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022
Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters for wage growth are the non-employment rate and the...
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The relation between economic and non-economic incentives to work and employment chances among the unemployed
Nordlund, Madelene; Strandh, Mattias - 2014
In this study we address the relationship of self-reported reservation wages (RW) (the lowest offered income at which an unemployed persona will accept a job offer), the income replacement rate of unemployment benefit (IRUB) and psychosocial need for employment with job search intensity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464455
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Enhancing the inclusiveness of the labour market in Belgium
Høj, Jens - 2013
The global crisis led to a smaller increase in the unemployment rate than in most other OECD countries as employment has been sustained through intensive use of reduced working time schemes. These schemes have mostly benefited workers with permanent contracts while the higher unemployment mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696083
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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354545
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The relation between economic and non-economic incentives to work and employment chances among the unemployed
Nordlund, Madelene; Strandh, Mattias - 2014
In this study we address the relationship of self-reported reservation wages (RW) (the lowest offered income at which an unemployed persona will accept a job offer), the income replacement rate of unemployment benefit (IRUB) and psychosocial need for employment with job search intensity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418861