456 research outputs found
Provisions of the welfare state: employment protection versus unemployment insurance
No full textEmployment protection and unemployment benefits are considered as the most prominent insurance devices for workers to protect themselves against the risk of unemployment. It occurs that societies either choose a high level of employment protection relative to unemployment benefits or vice versa. This paper explains where countries locate on this trade-off.employment protection, unemployment benefits, tradeoff, flexicurity, probabilistic voting model, Neugart
INTRUDER STATES IN THE LEAD REGION, STUDIED BY ALPHA-DECAY
No full textThe alpha decay of nuclei around the Z=82 closed proton shell is a powerful tool for the study of shape coexistence and intruder states in the lead region. Systematic measurements of alpha-decay properties of even-even mercury, lead, polonium and radon nuclei have been performed. From the deduced set of precise alpha-reduced widths in this region, we conclude that, in contrast to what has been suggested from recent alpha-decay rate calculations, alpha-decay rates do contain nuclear structure information. The fine-structure studies of the alpha decay of Rn-202,Po-194,Po-196,Po-198,Pb-188 and Hg-180,Hg-182 reveal feeding to low-lying O+ states in the daughter nuclei, which are proposed to be proton particle-hole pair excitations coexisting with the groundstate configurations. These data support the idea that the alpha-decay rate towards excited states relative to the groundstate, enables us to extract information about the structure of these low-energetic excited configurations
Labor market policy evaluation with an agent-based model
No full textI develop an agent-based computational economics (ACE) model with which I evaluate the aggregate impact of labor market policies. The findings are that government-financed training measures increase the outflow rate from unemployment to employment. Although the overall effect is positive this effect is achieved by reducing the outflow rate for those who do not receive subsidies. Furthermore, the outflow rate would have been downward-biased had one supposed a matching function that is exogenous to policies.Labor market policy evaluation; agent-based computational model; endogenous matching function; job displacement
Labor market policy evaluation with an agent-based model
No full textI develop an agent-based computational economics (ACE) model with which I evaluate the aggregate impact of labor market policies. The findings are that governmentfinanced training measures increase the outflow rate from unemployment to employment. Although the overall effect is positive this effect is achieved by reducing the outflow rate for those who do not receive subsidies. Furthermore, the outflow rate would have been downward-biased had one supposed a matching function that is exogenous to policies. -- Im Folgenden wird ein agenten-basiertes Modell entwickelt, mit dem die aggregierten Wirkungen von Arbeitsmarktpolitiken evaluiert werde können. Ein Resultat ist, dass die Subvention von Trainingsmaßnahmen die Übergangsrate von Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung erhöht. Obwohl der Gesamteffekt positiv ist, reduziert sich die Übergangsrate für all jene Arbeitslose, deren Ausgaben nicht subventioniert werden. Der Verdrängungseffekt ist bei einer plausiblen Parametrisierung des Modells in seiner Höhe ökonomisch relevant. Ferner wäre die Messung der Übergangsrate aus Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung nach unten verzerrt gewesen, hätte man in der Wirkungsanalyse angenommen, dass die Matching-Funktion exogen zu den Arbeitsmarktpolitiken ist.
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