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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary
Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims and existing claims continue to be administered...
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La pobreza en España en el período 1985-1995. Un análisis transversal y longitudinal.
RODRÍGUEZ, GONZÁLEZ; Rosario, Maria del; VELASCO … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 26 (2008) Agosto, pp. 1-32
The objective of the article has consisted of a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of the economic poverty state … during the period 1985-1995, using the Panel Household Budget Survey for this period of time. The three aspects of poverty …. This analysis has been carried out through the calculations of poverty indices and the graphical representation of the TIPs …
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Poverty Persistence in Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper analyses the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards determined … by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …
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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark
Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-22
We estimate the effect of active labour-market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We find large positive post-programme effects, and,...
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How unemployment insurance savings accounts affect employment duration : evidence from Chile
Nagler, Paula - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-25
The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper...
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Job search requirements for older unemployed: Transitions to employment, early retirement and disability benefits
Lammers, Marloes; Bloemen, Hans; Hochguertel, Stefan - In: European Economic Review 58 (2013) C, pp. 31-57
We use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1 2004, requires the elderly to formally...
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Unemployment duration and personality
Uysal, Selver Derya; Pohlmeier, Winfried - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (2011) 6, pp. 980-992
This paper focuses on the role personality traits play in determining individual unemployment duration. We argue that a worker’s job search intensity is decisively driven by her personality traits, reflected in her propensity to motivate and control herself while searching for a job. Moreover,...
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Asymmetric Information and List Price Reductions in the Housing Market
de Wit, Erik; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
In housing markets with asymmetric information list prices may signal unobserved properties of the house or the seller. Asymmetric information is the starting point of many models for the housing market. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of list-price reductions to test for the...
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Job Stability Trends, Layoffs and Transitions to Unemployment - An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
Bergemann, Annette; Mertens, Antje - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper studies the evolution of job stability in West Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the median elapsed tenure declined for men between 1984 and 1999. Second, estimating proportional Cox hazard models with competing risks and controls for stock...
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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data
Güell, Maia; Hu, Luojia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We propose a new econometric estimation method for analysing the probability of leaving un-employment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially useful when panel data are not available. The proposed method-of-moments-based estimator has two important...
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