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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate:Evidence from Denmark
Svarer, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment … for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findingsare that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862085
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America : Overview and Assessment
Ferrer, Ana M. - 2011
The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee's mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128212
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Ek, Susanne - 2011
the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128749
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130452
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Efficient Redistribution : Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2010
We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple utility function, with both intensive and extensive margins, the unemployed are likely better off with pure BI than pure UB, regardless of labour supply elasticity and wage...
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Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance
Andersen, Torben M. - 2010
The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search …
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Burda, Michael C. - 2010
frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138733
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
Cockx, Bart - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and … sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the … unemployed to front-load search effort prior to monitoring. This causes the job finding rate to increase above the post sanction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117409
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118503
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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements Across Socio-Economic Groups
Basso, Gaetano - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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