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Losing prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits : impact on educational attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...
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Firm closures and labor market policies in Europe : evidence from retrospective longitudinal data
Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Voucharas, Georgios - 2023
-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … and the re-employment duration, reduces the risk of staying unemployed, and leads to higher wages at the lower end of the … from active labor market policies in terms of re-employment probability, duration of re-employment, and risk of …
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A new claims-based unemployment dataset : application to postwar recoveries across U.S. states
Fieldhouse, Andrew; Howard, Sean; Koch, Christoffer; … - 2022
Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U.S. states going back to January 1947. The constructed series are highly correlated with the Bureau of Labor Statics' state-level unemployment data, which are only available from...
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Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects : the entitled-worker effect
Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2020
This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behavior of labor supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important...
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The economics of walking about and predicting unemployment
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2021
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia;...
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Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees
Nielson Arendt, Jacob - 2020
This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy that aimed at speeding up the labor market integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on-the-job training immediately upon arrival in the host...
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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The unemployment invariance hypothesis and the implications of added and discouraged worker effects in Latin America
Maridueña-Larrea, Ángel; Martín-Román, Ángel - 2023
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...
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