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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates
Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2004
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) 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 …
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