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Estimating equilibrium effects of job search assistance
Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287653
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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2003
on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261571
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261596
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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance
Gautier, Pieter A.; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122194
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Structurally Dependent Competing Risks
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001
unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262468
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Children in the Aftermath of the Great Recession
Andersen, Carsten; Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Nielsen, … - 2022
term unemployment. Perhaps surprisingly, we find no overall significant negative effects of parental mass layoffs on … following unemployment. This last finding would not have appeared using a traditional two-way fixed effects approach, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351928
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822884
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A Danish Profiling System
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael; Hammer, Bo - 2004
her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262159
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Sin City
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822290
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Marriage and the City
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822792