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The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important … data. The bias is procyclical and is reduced by more than 10% in recessions. We propose an algorithm that uses earnings and …
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Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey … respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to empirically distinguish between two explanations for a bias in results …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies … on mass-layoffs to provide an additional layer of exogeneity to unemployment. Second, it is one of the first papers using …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …
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enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …
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Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable … first line out a framework for treatment effect heterogeneity with two interdependent outcomes, such as duration and wages …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration …, unemployment and out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. Our findings suggest that unemployment triggers … return migration more than onward migration. When total earnings are low unemployment increases the hazard of return …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
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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 … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …
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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 … effects of the treatment at a certain elapsed duration compared to "no treatment at any subsequent duration". We prove …
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