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Economic risk and political risk in fiscal unions

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What do labor market institutions do?

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a fruitful interplay between search theory and empirical work. This research has established that UI matters for labor …

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Unemployment insurance generosity and aggregate employment

Boone, Christopher; Dube, Arindrajit; Goodman, Lucas; … - 2016

This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great Recession. Comparing adjacent counties located in neighboring states, we find no statistically significant impact of...

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What hides behind the German labor market miracle? : unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics

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A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...

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Unemployment compensation and the allocation of labor in developing countries

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This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012

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Optimal social insurance and rising labor market risk

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Market distortions and local indeterminacy : a general approach

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Migration elasticities, fiscal federalism and the ability of states to redistribute income

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