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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
544 Pedro Portugal
Ana Rute Cardoso
Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment effects of mandatory minimum wages, as the minimum wage increased sharply for ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204)
D21, J23, J38
543 Julia Darby
Robert A. Hart
Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression
This paper reviews the mains identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103)
J24, J31, N62
542 Markus Frölich
Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments
This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple programmes, which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224)
C13, C14
540 Gil S. Epstein
Astrid Kunze
Melanie E. Ward-Warmedinger
High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352)
F22, J41, J61, L20
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
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