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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 … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …
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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 unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
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Multicollinearity in the Presence of Errors-in-Variables Can Increase the Probability of Type-I Error
Komlos, John - 2019
Multicollinearity, especially in combination with errors-in-variables, can increase the likelihood of a Type-I error by inflating the value of the estimated coefficients by more than it magnifies their standard errors, thereby increasing the likelihood of obtaining statistically significant...
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Non-Standard Errors
Menkveld, Albert J. - 2021
In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...
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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly …
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Do benefit jikes damage job finding? : Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …
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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
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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...
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