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Benefit Duration, Job Search Behavior and Re-Employment
Lichter, Andreas - 2020
This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for...
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Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence
Bhalotra, Sonia; G.C. Britto, Diogo; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2021
We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We merge employer-employee and social welfare registers with administrative data on domestic violence cases brought to criminal courts, use of public shelters by victims and...
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … region the target group is counselled shortly after the notification, while in others not or only once the monitoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316984
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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market
Fest, Sebastian - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891569
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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
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Part-time unemployment and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2011
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274977
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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. Our reading of the theoretical literature is …This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315692
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315950
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833736
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Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
Arni, Patrick - 2018
, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908725