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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age

Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013

This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, Rene - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2016

A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the disincentive effect of UI benefits. However, unemployed workers typically also have caseworkers...

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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities

Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022

We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariate competing-risks hazard model is...

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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany

Neubäumer, Renate - 2010

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

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Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...

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Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Kyyrä, Tomi - 2017

This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We follow the timing-of-event approach and estimate the causal effect of part-time work on the exit rate to full-time work using a multivariate duration model. Our findings show...

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A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages

Krueger, Alan B. - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...

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