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This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …
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We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months’ earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by seven percentage...
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unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …
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This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …
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The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …
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unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …
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This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …
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Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
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This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … proxy measure of unemployment compensation benefits received in 1989. The theoretical model focuses on the job search …
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