Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity

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This paper analyses how and to which degree the Danish flexicurity concept and its various elements achieve the renowned Danish miracle by evaluating their unemployment and inequality effects and their complementarities. We develop a microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality substantially. Furthermore our analysis illustrates that the Danish flexicurity policies have some apparent complementarities in Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in isolation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1526

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions
• Subject: Flexicurity ; workfare ; firing costs ; employment ; unemployment ; Flexicurity ; Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung ; Soziale Sicherung ; Workfare ; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Verteilungswirkung ; Lohnstruktur ; Dänemark ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brown, Alessio J. G. ; Snower, Dennis J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28354
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET