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The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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recently unemployed workers, in areas of high unemployment, in firms with flexible pay policies, and when considering firm …-experimental variation in nonemployment values arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We … low bargaining power, with low labor force attachment, with high predicted unemployment duration, among job switchers and …
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Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
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We present a sharp test for the efficiency of job separations. First, we document a dramatic increase in the separation rate - 11.2ppt (28%) over five years - in response to a quasi-experimental extension of UI benefit duration for older workers. Second, after the abolition of the policy, the...
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This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by...
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