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How quickly does structural reform pay off? : an empirical analysis of the short-term effects of unemployment benefit reform

Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-12

While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …

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Can a search model predict the effects of an increase in the benefit duration? : evidence from the Portuguese unemployment insurance reform

Novo, Alvaro A.; Silva, André C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

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Who bears the cost of the business cycle? : labor-market institutions and volatility of the youth unemployment rate

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This …

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Youth minimum wages and youth employment

Marimpi, Maria; Koning, Pierre - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 5, pp. 1-24

variables on the employment, labor force participation, and unemployment rates of 5-year age interval categories—all derived …

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Who cleans my house if the government pays? : refugees, low-educated workers, and long-term unemployed in tax-subsidized domestic service firms

Rickne, Johanna - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-37

from long-term unemployment. I find that the shares of refugees and long-term unemployed in the subsidized sector barely …

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Does universal long-term care insurance boost female labor force participation? : macro-level evidence

Ando, Michihito; Furuichi, Masato; Kaneko, Yoshihiro - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-50

Although a public long-term care (LTC) program is a potentially important factor for the labor supply of female informal caregivers, there are only a handful of individual-level studies on this topic and the macro-level impacts of LTC programs are still largely unknown. Exploiting the...

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Fiscal policies and the prices of labor : a comparison of the U.K. and U.S.

Mulligan, Casey B. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-27

This paper measures the 2007-13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S. The U.S. changes are greater, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by employment, and primarily achieved with new implicit tax rates. Even though both countries implemented a...

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Countercyclical fiscal policy and gender employment : evidence from the G-7 countries

Akitoby, Bernardin; Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using the local projection method, we find that, during...

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Work incentive and other effects of social assistance and unemployment benefit policy in the Czech Republic

Erbenová, Michaela - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 23 (1998) 1, pp. 87-120

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Long-term unemployment, unemployment benefits and social assistance : the Polish experience

Góra, Marek; Schmidt, Christoph M. - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 23 (1998) 1/2, pp. 55-85

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