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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive … the transition rate to work does not depend on the timing of the meeting. -- unemployment ; active labor market policy … ; unemployment duration ; treatment effects ; meetings ; job search assistance ; case worker …
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While job search theory predicts that active labour market policies (ALMPs) can affect post-unemployment outcomes … unemployment spell. We use a social experiment, which was conducted in Denmark in 2005-6, to investigate the effects of a dramatic … duration dependence to separately identify "indirect" (via shorter unemployment duration) and "direct" (through a more …
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participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various … rate from unemployment, neither during the week in which the activity takes place, nor after the activity is completed …
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