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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
539 Yu-Fu Chen
Dennis J. Snower
Gylfi Zoega
Labour-Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks
Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these institutions and the effect of ...
(published in: Labour, 2003, 17(2), 247-270)
E32, J23, J24, J54
537 Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies
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 ...
(published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160)
J23, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
533 Stefan Fölster
Robert Gidehag
Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Assessing Welfare Accounts
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make ...
(published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275)
H11, H21, H23, H51, H52, H53, H55
531 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Dennis J. Snower
Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2003, 20 (2), 237-273)
J32, J60, J64, E30, E37
530 Marika Karanassou
Dennis J. Snower
Unemployment Invariance
This paper provides a critique of the “unemployment invariance hypothesis,” according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5 (3), 297-317)
J21, j23, J30, J38, J64, J68
529 Mike Orszag
Dennis J. Snower
Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy
The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 631-641 )
J23, J24, J31, J32, J64
528 Paola Manzini
Marco Mariotti
Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different institutional settings can ...
(published in: European Business Organization Law Review, 2002, 3 (3), 623-642)
J52
527 Jan C. van Ours
The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55)
J68, C41
526 Edwin Leuven
Hessel Oosterbeek
A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23, 423-434)
C21, J24, J31
525 James J. Heckman
Carolyn J. Heinrich
Jeffrey A. Smith
The Performance of Performance Standards
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(4), 778-811)
C31
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