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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 … effects may lead to severe biases in estimated coefficients of duration models, in applied work researchers have either …
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unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only … 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 …
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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 … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes …
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, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design … of unemployment benefits, we find that longer potential benefit duration implies longer actual unemployment and, as a …Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …
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We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …
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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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impairments and above-average duration of welfare dependence. The program effects decline over time, which cannot be explained by …
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I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … framework with search and matching frictions, and, as an innovation, in the presence of sectoral heterogeneity. Family and non … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model …
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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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