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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations; the Effects of Distance

Krogh Graversen, Brian; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...

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Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile

Reyes, Gonzalo; Ours, Jan C van; Vodopivec, Milan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … from unemployment, suggesting that such individuals internalize the costs of unemployment benefits. Our results provide … strong support to the idea that UISAs can improve work incentives. …

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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly; Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Krogh Graversen, Brian; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...

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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C van; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary

Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

unemployed in Hungary to be fairly inelastic to changes in UI benefits. …

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in US Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H; den Berg, Gerard J van; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In the past decades several features of US unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out...

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The Anatomy of Unemployment Dynamics

Abbring, Jaap H; den Berg, Gerard J van; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time-varying macroeconomic conditions in the economy on the other. We allow for calendar time effects acting on the exit probabilities for all currently unemployed. We also allow for...

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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...

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Labour Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighbourhood Characteristics

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper investigates how in addition to personal characteristics the neighbourhood affects the individual transition rate from welfare to work. We use a unique administrative database on welfare recipients in Rotterdam, the second largest city of The Netherlands. We find that the exit rate to...

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