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How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect the Duration of Unemployment [PDF]

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.The disincentive effects are identified by exploiting changes in the UI system in Slovenia, which involved substantial reductions in the ...
Ours, J.C. van, Vodopivec, M.
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

Equilibrium Search with Time-Varying Unemployment Benefits [PDF]

In this paper, we show how time-varying unemployment benefits can generate equilibrium wage dispersion in an economy in which identical firms post wages and homogeneous workers search for acceptable offers.
James Albrecht, Susan Vroman
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Public service supply chain management: A study of Australian employment services

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract To continuously improve public service provision has been a stated goal of governments worldwide. Despite the increasing popularity of systems approaches to analysing public service delivery, research into the topic from a supply chain management (SCM) perspective, while acknowledged for its potential contribution to improving public service ...
Phuc Nguyen, Michael McGann, Mark Considine   +2 more
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Imperfect Knowledge and the Pitfalls of Optimal Control Monetary Policy [PDF]

This paper examines the robustness characteristics of optimal control policies derived under the assumption of rational expectations to alternative models of expectations formation and uncertainty about the natural rates of interest and unemployment.
Athanasios Orphanides, John C. Williams
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Housing as the Fifth Pillar of the Welfare State: Why Spain Needs Structural Reform

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Spain's ongoing housing crisis reflects the cumulative effects of fragmented governance, underinvestment and financialisation. Despite recent reforms, structural challenges persist, threatening affordability and social inclusion. This article diagnoses the roots of Spain's housing failures, explores pathways for systemic reform and argues that
Montserrat Pareja‐Eastaway
wiley   +1 more source

Phillips Curve and the natural rate of unemployment. A simple approach to Peru. (1993 - 2006) [PDF]

This work tries to explain, by means of Phillips's curve (in a simple model), the relation that exists between inflation and rate of unemployment in the period from 1993 to 2006, in addition estimates the natural rate of unemployment for the above ...
Salazar, Eduardo
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty and Asymmetric Spillovers: Evidence From Korea

Pacific Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncertainty surrounding tax, expenditure and debt policy exerts an impact on the real economy. Motivated by this, our study investigates the effects of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU) on macroeconomic and fiscal aggregates in Korea. Using a recently developed Korea FPU index, we show that while shocks to FPU lead to an increase in government ...
Dooyeon Cho, Yeonjin Song
wiley   +1 more source

Association of Unemployment and Government Stringency With the Increased Burden of Anxiety and Depression Amid the Public Health Emergency: A Global Perspective. [PDF]

Brain Behav
Zhao C, Gào X, Zhang M, Yue W, Zhang X.
europepmc   +1 more source

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO ‘ACCEPT’ URBAN SHRINKAGE? A Comparative Analysis of Discursive Pathways to Policy and Action on Shrinking Cities in the Netherlands and Finland

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Shrinking cities are increasingly drawing global attention, but urban shrinkage is seldom considered as an enduring structural condition necessitating a move beyond growth‐centric strategies. The focus often remains on mitigating symptoms rather than embracing the broader implications of long‐term decline. Understanding of what drives decision‐
Marjan Marjanović, Johanna Lilius
wiley   +1 more source