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time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied …
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unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job information and sharpened bureaucratic incentives to find jobs for the … unemployment outflows. This is consistent with a model where information helps both groups, but bureaucrats were given incentives …
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Based on administrative data from Norway, we explore the "grey area" between the roles of unemployment- and temporary … similar to its effect on the propensity to claim unemployment insurance. Based on this finding, we question whether it is …
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change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different … aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social …
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and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …
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This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which … decrease in the number of days in unemployment benefits and increase in the number of days in employment. However, they also …
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reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …
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