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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Technical progress affects early retirement in two opposing ways. On the one hand, it increases real wages and thus produces an incentive to postpone retirement. On the other hand, it erodes workers’ skills, m...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2016 5:5
Published on: 10 March 2016
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Immigrants’ employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to the recession, and how much to a composition effect? Using Spanish Labor Force Survey data f...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2016 5:4
Published on: 25 February 2016
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This study examines how the Swedish earned income tax credit (EITC) introduced in 2007 affected the labor supply of men and women living in two-adult households and the extent to which children in the househol...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2016 5:3
Published on: 11 February 2016
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This paper examines the effect of increased elderly employment in Japan, caused by the legal obligation of continued employment enacted in 2006, on employment of other workers and elderly’s own earnings. I fin...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2016 5:2
Published on: 28 January 2016
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Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active la...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2016 5:1
Published on: 18 January 2016
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This paper exploits a unique cross-country, firm-level survey to study the responses of European firms to the sharp demand and credit contraction triggered by the global Great Recession of 2009. The analysis r...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:24
Published on: 29 December 2015
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This paper measures the 2007–13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S. The U.S. changes are greater, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by employment, and pr...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:23
Published on: 10 December 2015
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Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the frequency and magnitude of changes in minimum wages have been substantial. This paper uses county-level minimum wage data combined with urban h...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:22
Published on: 27 November 2015
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Employment rates among senior workers (aged 55 or over) in southern Europe are among the lowest in OECD economies. Spain is a paradigmatic example, with high unemployment rates and very low workforce reentry r...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:21
Published on: 13 November 2015
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We investigate the effectiveness of European Structural Funds on employment, population and house prices in 325 Local Labor Markets (LLM) located in Southern Italy. We exploit the variability in disbursements ...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:20
Published on: 28 October 2015
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Unemployment swings have distributional consequences if some groups are hit harder than others. We examine if the sensitivity to local unemployment rates varies by characteristics such as health, cognitive abi...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:19
Published on: 13 October 2015
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Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part or all of their benefits if earnings exceed certain thresholds (“cash-cliffs”). This implicit taxation is considered the prime reason for the low number of ben...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:18
Published on: 25 September 2015
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
In December 2005, the Belgian government adopted the law on the Intergenerational Solidarity Pact (ISP) aimed at increasing the employment rate of older workers. The main policies of the ISP consist of a pensi...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:17
Published on: 10 September 2015
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This paper presents the results of two experimental evaluations of transitional jobs programs for recently released former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Tra...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:16
Published on: 27 August 2015
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The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD average. ...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:15
Published on: 10 August 2015
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This paper presents the final economic results of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) programme. ERA’s distinctive combination of post-employment advisory support and financial incentives was des...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:14
Published on: 24 July 2015
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This paper examines the role of fiscal policies in the dynamics of the labor market. Through the lenses of Okun’s Law, we assess how fiscal policy instruments as well as fiscal consolidation and expansion epis...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:13
Published on: 10 July 2015
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This paper analyses the main features and determinants of labour market reforms in the EU over the period of 2000–2011 using the European Commission LABREF database. The data suggests that the timing, focus, a...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:12
Published on: 26 June 2015
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Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children’s education, family preventive health care and parents’ work and tra...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:11
Published on: 13 June 2015
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We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform of the Danish Flexjob scheme targeted towards employing the long-term (partially) disabled....
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:10
Published on: 29 May 2015
Original article
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively rich set of o...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:9
Published on: 15 May 2015
Erratum
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:8
Published on: 29 April 2015
The original article was published in IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014 3:18
Original article
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participa...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:7
Published on: 24 April 2015
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Using the 2006 and 2010 Health and Retirement Study, we explore how the recent recession impacted the wealth holding and retirement plans of older households in the United States. Of particular interest to us ...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:6
Published on: 26 March 2015
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Italy has the lowest labor supply of married women among EU countries. Moreover, the participation rate of married women is positively correlated with their husbands’ income. We show that these two features ca...
IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2015 4:5
Published on: 19 March 2015
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