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costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
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Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …
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This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi … appears as a key determinant of capital accumulation which, in turn, is the transmission channel towards its unemployment … swings experienced by the financialization process. We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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The Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009 is associated with a dramatic weakening of the labor market from which, by some measures, it has not completely recovered. I use data from the Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) from 1984-2014 to investigate the incidence and consequences of job...
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unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
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pre-crisis period, are much more likely to lose their jobs and go on unemployment insurance after the crisis. These …
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unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incentive costs of … unemployment benefits paid at different times during the unemployment spell. Our general approach allows to revisit and evaluate in …. We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First …
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