The Simple Economics of Benefit Transfers /
The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment benefits into employment subsidies--'benefit transfers...
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| Format: | Journal |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1995.
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| Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1995/005 |
| Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |
| Summary: | The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment benefits into employment subsidies--'benefit transfers' for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an incentive to work. The vouchers rise with people's unemployment durations and with the amount of training provided. The policy would be costless to the government since the cost of the employment vouchers is set equal to the amount saved on unemployment benefits. It would not be inflationary since the long-term unemployed, on whom the vouchers are targeted, have little influence on wage setting. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (42 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
| Access: | Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students |