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Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of … unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …
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In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …
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The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …
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Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...
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incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
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analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …
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In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …
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voluntary non-participation and involuntary unemployment which is caused by labor market rationing and model the dynamics of … allows us to test for true state dependence of voluntary non-participation, involuntary unemployment, full-time work and over …
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With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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