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Social interactions in unemployment

Lalive, Rafael - 2003

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Premium differentiation in the unemployment insurance system and the demand of labor

Alessie, Rob; Bloemen, Hans G. - 2000

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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients … this paper we investigate how benefit sanctions and reemployment bonuses affect job finding rates of welfare recipients. We … find that benefit sanctions were effective in bringing unemployed from welfare to work more quickly while reemployment …

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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006

Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...

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Labor market transitions of members of opposite-sex couples : nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2021

An empirical analysis of labor market transitions for spouses in couples is implemented. Object of study are transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search, the emphasis is on spousal variables and interactions....

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Entrepreneurial moral hazard in income insurance

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2011

We study entrepreneurs’ behavioral responses of effort (moral hazard) to avoid business failure.This is done in the context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured....

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Premium differentiation in the unemployment insurance system and the demand for labor

Alessie, Rob; Bloemen, Hans G. - 2000

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment Insurance system on the demand for labor for a variety of sectors in the Dutch economy. For the simulations we use the Bentolila and Bertola (1990) framework as a point of...

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On existence of private unemployment insurance with advance information on future job losses

Denderski, Piotr; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2021

We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection rooting in information on future job losses. The new feature of the model is that the insurer and workers interact repeatedly. Repeated interactions make it possible to threaten...

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Welfare effects of short-time compensation

Braun, Helge; Bruegemann, Bjoern - 2017

We study welfare effects of public short-time compensation (STC) in a model in which firms respond to idiosyncratic profitability shocks by adjusting employment and hours per worker. Introducing STC substantially improves welfare by mitigating distortions caused by public unemployment insurance...

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Wage structure and the incentive effect of promotions

Herpen, Marco van; Cools, Cornelis; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...

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