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Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review

Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia - 2018

In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both the theoretical and empirical findings in order to understand why this...

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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … reaches its highest level, then decrease and disappear as the program is scaled down and finally interrupted. We use this …

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Six ways to leave unemployment

Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T. - 2003

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The novel aspect of the study resides in its identification...

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How does the unemployment insurance system shape the time profile of jobless duration?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2004

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline hazard function and allowing for discrete changes...

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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data

Güell, Maia; Hu, Luojia - 2004

This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially useful when panel data are not available. The proposed method-ofmoments- based estimator has two...

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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...

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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2004

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model...

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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions

Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004

We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and...

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....

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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - 2004

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records of the same workers. The latter provide information on...

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