Patterns of welfare-to-employment transitions of Croatian Guaranteed Minimum Benefit recipients: a preliminary study

Matković, Teo; Caha, Dinka

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“…It is likely that poorer households' labor force participation rates are not much affected by the level of the guaranteed minimum benefit (GMB) either. While the marginal effective tax rate for some family configurations is high, it does not seem to factor much in transitions to employment in Slavonia (Matković and Caha, 2017). Repeated increases in minimum wages since 2016 have reduced this inactivity trap, as benefits have not been indexed (Matković 2018b).…”

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“…In Slavonia, among GMB recipients, there is a slightly higher share of people able to work than in other regions (most other beneficiaries being children or people with disabilities, often from the same household). Recipients of the GMB who are unemployed, face several barriers that hinder transition towards the labor market, including low education, care responsibility (towards children, spouses and the elderly) and low mobility (car ownership disqualifies someone from the GMB program if there is any public transport), resulting in annual transitions to employment of only about 20 percent (Matković and Caha, 2017). However, beneficiaries are seldom exclusively targeted by ALMPs, training or social services, and no such record is kept.…”

Section: Activating Guaranteed Minimum Benefit (Gmb) Beneficiariesmentioning

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Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia – A Subnational Labor Market Assessment

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are gratefully acknowledged. Comments by by Alexandria Valerio, Andrea Woodhouse and Michele Zini further helped improve the quality of the report. The study has been financed by and prepared for the Government of Croatia as input in Program Slavonia, a Regional Development program initiated to stimulate the development of Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.

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Section: There Are No Major Work Disincentives From Social Security Ementioning

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Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia – A Subnational Labor Market Assessment

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“…There is a general consensus among economists that the provision of social protection-meaning, putting in place various instruments for assuring income security is an economic and social necessity [11]. Indeed, the rational choice of spending the free time as a free rider or accepting the minimum wage guaranteed (the higher it is, the bigger the incentive to work) for the skills it requires (the lower they are, the bigger the incentive the employment barriers), could create an inactivity trap [12][13][14][15]. The danger is that a generous social assistance "may lock low-skilled workers into persistent low-wage employment", generating a potential disincentive to work [16][17].…”

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Assuring SME’s Sustainable Competitiveness in the Digital Era. A Labour Policy between Minimum Wage Guaranteed and ICT Skill Mismatch

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the real impact of ICT skill mismatch on SME’s sustainable competitiveness in presence of minimum wage guaranteed. As part of public policies – the minimum wage need to maintain a balance between increasing employment and not being a burden for the companies, leading them to bankruptcies, especially in times of disruptive change in which economy have to be more resilient. The rapid progress in information and communication technologies has dramatically redefined the rising unemployment as a result of skills mismatch. This paper aims to understand, on one side if, there is a match between the supply demand of ICT skills and how increasingly powerful digital technologies affect skills, jobs, and the demand for human labour. On the other, if increasing productivity and a fair minimum wage could be an integrated approach in stimulating SME’s in increasing sustainable competitiveness.

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Assuring SME’s Sustainable Competitiveness in the Digital Era: A Labor Policy between Guaranteed Minimum Wage and ICT Skill Mismatch

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the real impact of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) skills mismatch on SME’s (small and medium enterprises) sustainable competitiveness in the presence of a guaranteed minimum wage. As part of public policies—the minimum wage needs to maintain a balance between increasing employment and not being a burden for the companies, leading them to bankruptcies, especially in times of disruptive change, in which economies have to be more resilient. The rapid progress in information and communication technologies has dramatically redefined rising unemployment as a result of skills mismatch. This paper aims to understand, on the one hand, whether there is a match between the supply demand of ICT skills, and how increasingly powerful digital technologies affect the skills, jobs, and demand for human labor. On the other hand, it aims to understand whether increasing productivity and a fair minimum wage could be an integrated approach for stimulating SME’s in increasing sustainable competitiveness.

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Patterns of welfare-to-employment transitions of Croatian Guaranteed Minimum Benefit recipients: a preliminary study

Abstract: teo matković, dinka caha: patterns of welfare-to-employment transitions of croatian guaranteed minimum benefit recipients: a preliminary study public sector economics 41 (3) 335-358 (2017)

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Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia – A Subnational Labor Market Assessment

Jobs Challenges in Slavonia, Croatia – A Subnational Labor Market Assessment

Assuring SME’s Sustainable Competitiveness in the Digital Era. A Labour Policy between Minimum Wage Guaranteed and ICT Skill Mismatch

Assuring SME’s Sustainable Competitiveness in the Digital Era: A Labor Policy between Guaranteed Minimum Wage and ICT Skill Mismatch

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