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duration (PBD) on reservation wages and on other dimensions of job selectivity, using a difference-in-difference strategy. We … of hours, duration of labor contract and commuting time/distance. The estimated elasticity of actual benefit duration …
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In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the...
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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.5 and 0.3 respectively. We use RDD estimates to …
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benefits or by taxing unemployment benefits) could significantly lower the average duration of unemployment and the relative … number of long duration spells of unemployment. Because of the non-linear response of the unemployment duration to the …
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duration dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we … observation of beliefs and ex-post realizations, to disentangle heterogeneity and duration dependence in true job finding rates …
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We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E … observed outward shift in the Beveridge curve between 2008 and 2013. Both negative duration dependence in the job-finding rate …
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accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor … that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...
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, when a Brownian motion with drift hits a barrier. This implies that the duration of each worker's jobless spells has an … prove that the distribution of these parameters is identified from the duration of two spells. We use social security data … for Austrian workers to estimate the model. We conclude that dynamic selection is a critical source of duration dependence …
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This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the long-term effects of an experimental job-search assistance program operating in Nevada in 2009. The program required randomly-selected unemployed workers who had just started collecting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to undergo an...
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