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This Paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labour market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility requirements and the effect of the actual enforcement of...
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. In addition to that, stricter monitoring may reduce net earnings by up to 4 days of pay for every unemployed worker due …
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monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search … effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions … represents a welfare improvement for reasonable estimates of monitoring costs; this conclusion holds both relative to a system …
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With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
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We investigate the effect of counselling and monitoring on the individual employment transition rate. We theoretically … results show that counselling and monitoring do not affect the work exit rate. Monitoring causes a shift from informal to …
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We develop a structural non-stationary model of job search in the fashion of van den Berg (1990). Non-stationarity comes from the duration-dependence in benefits, in the arrival rate of job offers, and in wage offers. The model is then estimated using the French sample of the ECHP Survey...
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The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions...
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In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...
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