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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of …
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benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …
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-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions …
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We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …
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focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …
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Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … duration of unemployment on hiring intentions is mediated by the four theories. The lower hiring chances of the long …. Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration as a …
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The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate … of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we … decreased the hazard rate of the transition from unemployment to employment, with an implied elasticity of the hazard rate with …
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' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if …
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