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Modelling the Time onUnemployment Insurance Benefits
Bijwaard, Govert E. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862577
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Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States:Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions
Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, weshow that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of requiredparticipation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UIentitlements, and high sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862596
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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Workingin Spain? A Job Search Approach
Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
while receiving disability benefits. The puzzle is, however, thatemployment rates in this group of individuals are very low …. The aim of this paper is tounderstand the incentives and disincentives to work provided by the partial disability schemein … age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486964
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Unemployment Duration and Disability:Evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, António Gomes de; Vieira, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on(re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861869
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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market:The Case of the Netherlands
Bijwaard, Govert E.; Veenman, Justus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at thesame time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on thetransitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largestimmigrant groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862587
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Jobin the Greater Paris Area
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances,we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862780
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Unemployment Benefits or Taxes:How Should Policy Makers Redistribute Incomeover the Business Cycle?
Ek, Susanne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
.S.) labor market data. The numerical results suggestthat higher benefits in the bad state are optimal, but the benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486967
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Unemployment Assistance and Transition to Employment in Argentina
Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net and appears to have successfully protected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859542
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Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question
Fredriksson, Peter; Söderström, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859574
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The Lot of the Unemployed : A Time Use Perspective
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job[...]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859689