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We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant findings are eleven times more likely to be published. Correcting for publication bias halves the average elasticity. Meta-analysis provides a principled way for sufficient...
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In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
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This paper uses readily accessible data to measure the probability that an employed worker becomes unemployed and the probability that an unemployed worker finds a job, the ins and outs of unemployment. Since 1948, the job finding probability has accounted for three-quarters of the fluctuations...
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expellee inflow was distributed very asymmetrically across two West German regions. A dynamic two-region search and matching …
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Unemployment arises from frictions in the matching of job-seekers and employers. The level of resources that employers … employers can review applicants cheaply. The cost of evaluation per hire depends on the fraction of applicants who are qualified …
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: vocational training, vocational training combined with matching youth to firms, and matching only. Training is offered in sectors … with high quality firms. The matching intervention assigns workers for interviews with such firms. At baseline, unskilled … firms. However, youth additionally offered matching become discouraged because call back rates from firm owners are far …
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Labor market outcomes for young college graduates have deteriorated substantially in the last twenty five years, and more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation cohort was 9%, whereas it rose to 12% for the 2013 graduation...
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