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Do unemployment insurance recipients actively seek work? : evidence From randomized trials in four U.S. states
Ashenfelter, Orley; Ashmore, David; Deschênes, Olivier - 2000
In this paper we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone decreases unemployment claims and benefits paid in the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) program....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325991
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The wage elasticity of informal care supply : evidence from the health and retirement study
Nizalova, Olena - 2010
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008848
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Firm productivity dispersion and the matching role of UI policy
Blumkin, Tomer (contributor); Hadar, Yosi (contributor);  … - 2005
of random matching. Workers react to UI policy through job acceptance decisions; firms react to UI policy through wage … posting. There is endogenous assortative matching as a result of the fact that UI policy induces a time profile for … skewness. -- productivity ; heterogeneity ; UI policy ; endogenous assortative matching ; search …
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Job matching and the returns to educational signals
Habermalz, Steffen (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001733997
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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages
Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246658
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Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and … resolve the challenges imposed by population aging, especially for older women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997453
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Older men : pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929123
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
. -- retirement ; population aging ; labor supply ; pensions ; China ; Indonesia ; Korea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517427
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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers
Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401354