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How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael - 2008

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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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration

Meier, Volker - 2006

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy : Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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Assessing Temporary Product-Specific Subsidies : A Time Series Intervention Analysis

Leuwer, David - 2018

installation of a “cash for clunkers” subsidy by the German government in 2009 to assess implied disruptions in the German …

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Green Paradox and Directed Technical Change : The Effect of Subsidies to Clean R&D

Daubanes, Julien - 2014

We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...

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Robust Policies Against Emission Leakage : The Case for Upstream Subsidies

Fischer, Carolyn; Greaker, Mads; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2021

Asymmetric regulation of a global pollutant between countries can alter the competitiveness of industries and lead to emissions leakage, which hampers countries’ welfare. In order to limit leakage, governments consider supporting domestic trade exposed firms by subsidizing their investments in...

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Biofuels Subsidies and the Green Paradox

Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Long, Ngo Van - 2021

This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the substitution to biofuels. Analytical results are derived and...

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?

Barr, Andrew - 2017

For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...

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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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