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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...

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Does Labor Supply Matter During a Recession? Evidence from the Seasonal Cycle

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2010

Every year has large demand and supply shifts associated with the seasons, regardless of the phase of the business cycle. Based on measures dating back to the 1940s, the seasonal shifts reject the hypotheses that demand shifts affect employment outcomes significantly more in recession years than...

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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …

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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth

Levinsohn, James A. - 2011

generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity … share of youth experiencing long-term unemployment …

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The Arra : Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2012

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …

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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design

Card, David - 2012

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …

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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

Farber, Henry S. - 2013

In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the … unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …

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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2012

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...

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A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium

Krusell, Per - 2010

We develop a simple model featuring search frictions and a nondegenerate labor supply decision along the extensive margin. The model is a standard version of the neoclassical growth model with indivisible labor with idiosyncratic shocks and frictions characterized by employment loss and...

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Fear, Unemployment and Migration

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

the flow of workers from Eastern Europe, the fear of unemployment has risen in the UK which appears to have contained wage … rate of unemployment …

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