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How does scarcity affect individual willingness to share and willingness to enforce sharing from others? Sharing in poor communities gains importance as an insurance mechanism during adverse shocks, yet shocks make it costlier to share. I conducted repeated economic experiments in both a lean...
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changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …
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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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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
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Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at … research based on unemployment duration data derived from the retrospective calendar information in the German Socio …-Economic Panel, where a very high proportion of all unemployment spells beginning in January or end in December of each year. We show …
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I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …
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unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …
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Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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