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Financing Unemployment Benefits: Dismissal versus Employment Taxes

2006

This paper investigates the effects of using dismissal taxes to finance unemployment benefits. We compare dismissal and employment taxes in a model with search frictions. Employment taxes give rise to externalities because firms do not take into account the effects their dismissal decisions have on others. By introducing dismissal taxes to finance unemployment insurance, these externalities can partly be internalized. Taking into account the budget of the unemployment insurance, employment taxes can be reduced by more than necessary to offset the adverse effect of dismissal taxes on the firm value. The introduction of dismissal taxes leads to higher job creation and lower unemployment, in c…

FinanceJob creationLabour economicsFull employmentbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectGeography Planning and Developmentemployment protection search and matching models unemployment unemployment insurancejel:J64jel:J65jel:J41jel:J68DismissalUnemploymentValue (economics)EconomicsbusinessExternalityDemographymedia_commonLabour
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The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency

2015

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit reduction explains just about 5% of the observed decline. Due to disincentive effects resulting from the reform, the reform of the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long-term unemployed workers.

Economics and EconometricsLabour economicsFull employmentmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesjel:J65jel:E24employment agencies unemployment benefits labour market reform unemployment structural modeljel:J68HPublic employment0502 economics and businessAgency (sociology)UnemploymentEconomicsMarket reform050207 economicsFinance050205 econometrics media_common
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The effect of job displacement on couples' fertility decisions

2016

This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish longitudinal employer-employee data (FLEED) matched to birth records. We distinguish between male and female job losses. We focus on couples where one spouse has lost his/her job due to a plant closure or mass layoff and follow them for several years both before and following the job loss. As a comparison group we use similar couples that were not affected by job displacement. In order to examine the possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The results show that a woman?s own job loss decreases fertility mainly for highly educated w…

Economics and EconometricsLabour economicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectPlant closure employment earnings divorce fertilitydivorce earnings employment plant closure fertilityFertilityFamily incomejel:J655. Gender equality0502 economics and businessEconomics050602 political science & public administrationjob displacementClosure (psychology)050207 economicshedelmällisyysjob loss050205 econometrics media_commoncouplesfertilityta511Earnings05 social sciencesDisplacement (psychology)0506 political sciencejel:J13jel:J12SpouseFamily planningIndustrial relations8. Economic growthta5141Domestic violence
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