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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

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Strengthening enforcement in unemployment insurance : a natural experiment

Arni, Patrick; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2016

Enforcing the compliance with job search obligations is a core task of conditional benefit systems like unemployment insurance (UI) or welfare. For targeted policy design, it is key to understand how the enforcement regime affects job search outcomes. This paper provides first estimates that...

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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment

Arni, Patrick - 2015

Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...

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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2010

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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The effect of extended unemployment benefit on the job finding hazards : a quasi-experiment in Japan

Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - 2013

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We investigate this question by exploiting not only strict age thresholds but also the pre-displacement tenure and the reason for separation from the previous job in the Japanese...

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Is longer unemployment rewarded with longer job tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...

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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2013

We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...

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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design

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

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...

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The role of caseworkers in unemployment insurance : evidence from unplanned absences

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2017

Caseworkers are the main human resource used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers … unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find that individuals who lose an early meeting with their caseworker stay on … caseworkers: the effect of a foregone meeting doubles for caseworkers in the highest productivity tercile, while it is zero for …

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