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Vouchers as a Way to finance Unemployment Benefits

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Dennis Botman () (University of Amsterdam)
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Instead of financing unemployment benefits through payroll taxes, we propose to finance them through the sale of vouchers to firms. Unemployment benefits act as employment subsidies and dismissal penalties, (aggregate) unemployment is lower and may remain constant, and displacement effects are smaller than in alternative proposals.

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 98-128/3.

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Date of creation: 21 Dec 1998
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Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:19980128

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