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selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
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context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to … unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured. To disentangle moral hazard from adverse selection we use an institutional … featureof the Danish unemployment system that provides an additional motive to choose insurance(an early retirement option). We …
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We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment …
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up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …
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unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the … rate models that account for both the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from …
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otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …
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becoming juniormedical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model thetransitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medicalassistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant tounemployment. We …
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We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it takes more time for …
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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