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Recent extensions of US unemployment benefits : search responses in alternative labor market states
Valletta, Robert G. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
In response to the 2007 - 09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …
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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38
Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...
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