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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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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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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of Ui Recipients?

Barr, Andrew - 2017

For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...

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The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt : New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

Card, David - 2018

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

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Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia

Khanna, Gaurav - 2019

We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass-layoffs, on criminal arrests using a novel matched employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased likelihood of being arrested for both the displaced...

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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?

Komlos, John - 2014

Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...

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