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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...

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The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment

Bhuller, Manudeep; Ferraro, Domenico; Kostøl, Andreas … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering these questions empirically has proven difficult due to selection in internet use and difficulty in measuring the search activities of both sides of the labor market. This paper...

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The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment : Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

Müller, Andreas; Spinnewijn, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the predictability of long-term unemployment (LTU) and analyzes its main determinants using rich administrative data in Sweden. Compared to using standard socio-demographic variables, the predictive power more than doubles when leveraging the rich data environment. The largest...

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...

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Of Markets and Marriages : A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of U.S. Poverty

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...

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Identification and Estimation of Continuous-Time Job Search Models with Preference Shocks

Arcidiacono, Peter; Gyetvai, Attila; Maurel, Arnaud; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper applies some of the key insights of dynamic discrete choice models to continuous-time job search models. We propose a novel framework that incorporates preference shocks into search models, resulting in a tight connection between value functions and conditional choice probabilities....

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana - 2005

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 … on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 …, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …

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Dual Credit Markets : Income Risk, Household Debt, and Consumption

Matsa, David A.; Melzer, Brian T.; Zator, Michal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Many young employees work on a temporary basis, which entails significantly greater income risk than "permanent" work, even for jobs in the same occupation and at a similar wage. We find that this income uncertainty leads lenders to ration credit to temporary workers, precisely at the stage of...

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