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Caught in the trap? : the disincentive effect of social assistance

Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina - 2009

While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single males especially, is more scant. This is, however, important in countries like France and...

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Fiscal sustainability and demographic change : a micro approach for 27 EU countries

Dolls, Mathias; Doorley, Karina; Paulus, Alari; … - 2015

The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and 2030 on labor force participation and government budgets in the EU-27. Our analysis involves the...

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To own or not to own? : household portfolios, demographics and institutions in a cross-national perspective

Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut

Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

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The effect of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment insurance receipt : new evidence from a regression kink design in Missouri, 2003-2013

Card, David E.; Johnston, Andrew; Leung, Pauline; Mas, … - 2020

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

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