Showing 1 - 10 of 339
unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. A search model incorporating duration dependence determines the UI wage effect as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272710
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083755
The administration of benefits is a relatively neglected aspect of the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789102
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528530
This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … employment. The unemployment rate rises an average of 7 percentage points over the down phase of the cycle, which lasts on … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124095
labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067538
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666681
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123553
This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women … analysis suggests that policies to reduce unemployment duration and encourage full-time work, especially among men, should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123953
overly long unemployment durations. We examine the influence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611007