Wage subsidies targeted to jobseekers with disabilities: subsequent employment and disability retirement

The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies

The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The...

Employment retention and advancement of disadvantaged jobseekers*

Supported Employment and Social Inclusion – Experiences of Workers with Disabilities in Wage Subsidized Employment in Sweden

RAISING THE EMPLOYMENT AND PAY OF THE WORKING POOR** Low-Wage Employment Subsidies versus the Welfare State

This paper is a brief for the introduction of a subsidy to any qualified firm for its use of low-wage employees as a means to reduce the unemployment and raise the pay of disadvantaged workers. There would be a case for such a wage subsidy in all the advanced market economies, and certainly the American one, regardless of recent trends. The case has grown stronger, however, with the worsening o...

Low-Wage Employment Subsidies in a Labor-Turnover Model of the ‘Natural Rate’

This paper models two kinds of wage subsidy in a model of the natural rate having a continuum of workers ranked by their productivity— a flat wage subsidy and a graduated wage subsidy, each financed by a proportional payroll tax. In the small open economy case, with the graduation as specified, we show that both schemes expand employment throughout the distribution; for those whose productivity...