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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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Design and Evaluation of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
Hämäläinen, Kari; Verho, Jouko - 2022
The Finnish basic income experiment was an ambitious effort to study basic income in a Nordic welfare state. This paper describes the planning, implementation and scientific evaluation of the experiment. The randomized treatment group was paid a guaranteed monthly income, which had no impact on...
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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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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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The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020
Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale administrative data, I exploit exogenous variation in unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find...
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Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing
Gerard, Francois - 2019
The most common forms of government-mandated job displacement insurance are Severance Pay (SP; lump-sum payments at layoff) and Unemployment Insurance (UI; periodic payments contingent on non-employment). While there is a vast literature on UI, SP programs have received much less attention, even...
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers
Paggiaro, Adriano; Rettore, Enrico; Trivellato, Ugo - 2008
an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re …
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Cash-on-Hand and the duration of job search: Quasi-experimental evidence from Norway
Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil - 2012
We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …
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