We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offspring's employment …