* 4 Results enter search term Search Reset filter Suchfilter Content Type Publications (4) Publication Type Journal Article (4) Experts Dennis J. Snower (4) J. Michael Orszag (4) Date Last Month Last Year Select Period start date to end date Sort by Relevance Date Aktive Filter Tags: Employment Policy Remove all filters Publication The Effectiveness of Employment Vouchers: A Simple Approach 01.01.2000 This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (“employment vouchers” for short) in the context of a dynamic model of the labor market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment... Publication Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy 01.01.2002 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 analysis indicates that introducing this policy could... Publication Designing Employment Subsidies 01.01.2003 The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: hiring subsidies and wage subsidies. The hiring subsidies are targeted exclusively at the unemployed and are provided only for a... Publication Anatomy of Policy Complementarities 01.01.1998 The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive...
Publication The Effectiveness of Employment Vouchers: A Simple Approach 01.01.2000 This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (“employment vouchers” for short) in the context of a dynamic model of the labor market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment...
Publication Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy 01.01.2002 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 analysis indicates that introducing this policy could...
Publication Designing Employment Subsidies 01.01.2003 The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty: hiring subsidies and wage subsidies. The hiring subsidies are targeted exclusively at the unemployed and are provided only for a...
Publication Anatomy of Policy Complementarities 01.01.1998 The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive...