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duration of wage losses than for increases in the probability of loss that produce the same expected loss. A formal model of … occupational choice is developed that shows the extent to which the compensation for increased duration exceeds that for increased … the compensating wage differential for losses due to workplace injuries is compensation for increases in the duration of …
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maximum workers' compensation benefit on the duration of workplace injuries in Minnesota. As a result of legislation, workers … the change in mean log injury duration for workers who were affected by the benefit increase to that of workers who were … not affected by the benefit increase. The findings indicate that the duration of injuries increased by 8 percent more for …
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the incidence and duration of claims are close to 1.0 for unemployment insurance and between 0.5 and 1.0 for workers …
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unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …
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unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …
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) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …
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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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We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the...
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This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a simple method of calculating the welfare gains from UI using this evidence. I show that 60 percent of the increase in unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a...
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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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