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probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …
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measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …
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educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …
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We conduct a field experiment in a naturally occurring labor environment and track whether the performance of workers responds to unexpected wage increases. Specifically, we investigate how the timing of wage increases affects efforts. We find that workers’ performance is about 11% higher for...
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This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro-social motivation that have been considered in the literature: action-oriented altruism and output-oriented altruism. To this end we employ an experimental design that first measures...
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This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...
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