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consistent with a standard non-stationary partial equilibrium search model. The program is self-financing even under conservative …
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
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We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …
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How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … these questions empirically has proven difficult due to selection in internet use and difficulty in measuring the search … employees. To interpret these findings, we develop and calibrate an equilibrium search model with endogenous job creation and …
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We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
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We study the labor market effects of permanent 23-50% reductions in unemployment insurance benefits available in seven …
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-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference …
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I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...
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adjustments ('moral hazard') into contagious presenteeism and noncontagious absenteeism behavior and derives testable conditions …
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