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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329133
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700369
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Do low-wage workers react less to longer unemployment benefits? Quasi-experimental evidence
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2012
benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290022
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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277286
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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283972
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Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019
We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005872
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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584368
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The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307369
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Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults
Fradkin, Andrey; Panier, Frédéric; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance mechanisms. Instead, they rely on family insurance in the form of parental support to smooth consumption. We study the labor market response of Belgian young adults to decreases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345361
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Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990913