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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power

Firpo, Sergio - 2014

The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we examine whether such a strategy is rewarded by voters who elect politicians who assist their...

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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2012

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...

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Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries

Charlot, Olivier - 2013

This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and informal activities, as well as the allocation of...

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The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market

Guo, Audrey - 2020

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have developed a substantial literature considering the impact of payments on labor supply. In contrast, they have usually left unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax...

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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Giertz, Seth H. - 2012

-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal externalities. With modest migration elasticities, the costs of state … a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax … state's citizens. At higher migration elasticities, the costs of state action can be tremendous. Overall excess burden is …

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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

Margolis, David N. - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion in the Finnish Labor Market

Kyyrä, Tomi - 2017

Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card,...

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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics

Hartung, Benjamin - 2018

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...

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Career Progression and Formal Versus On-the-Job Training

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Labor Market Institutions and the Cost of Recessions

Krebs, Tom - 2017

This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...

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