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The British New Deal for Young People began in January 1998. After 6 months of unemployment, 18-24 year olds are mandated to enter a `Gateway' period where they are given extensive job search assistance. If they are unable to obtain an unsubsidised job, then they can enter one of four New Deal...
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unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …
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We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …
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The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...
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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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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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equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … decline in callbacks. Interviews lost to duration impact individual job-finding rates solely if they would have led to jobs …. Discrimination in callbacks is thus largely a response to dynamic selection, with limited consequences for structural duration …
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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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This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
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