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In this paper, we review the literature on the “spike” in unemployment exit rates aroundbenefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a largesample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way unemployment spells are measured hasa large effect on the magnitude...
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the durationof training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that theamount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). Thisfeature allows us to...
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In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...
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In this paper we document the importance of framing effects in the retirement savingsdecisions of college professors. Pensions in many post-secondary institutions are funded bya combination of an employer contribution and a mandatory employee contribution.Employees can also make tax-deferred...
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