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Self-Employment in OECD Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2000
self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs … Netherlands. Latvia, Russia and Hungary were found to be the least flexible countries. Of the OECD countries examined, Austria and …
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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462956
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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?
Allard, Gayle - 2006
harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466204
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938696
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Heterogeneous Actions, Beliefs, Constraints and Risk Tolerance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Fan, Ying - 2020
During a pandemic, an individual's choices can determine outcomes not only for the individual but also for the entire community. Beliefs, constraints and preferences may shape behavior. This paper documents demographic differences in behaviors, beliefs, constraints and risk preferences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481794
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The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion : Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
Card, David - 2007
defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465763
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Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior : New Evidence from the Labor Market
Card, David - 2006
discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466022
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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice
Card, David - 2016
unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455899
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Decomposing Duration Dependence in a Stopping Time Model
Alvarez, Fernando E. - 2016
We develop a dynamic model of transitions in and out of employment. A worker finds a job at an optimal stopping time, when a Brownian motion with drift hits a barrier. This implies that the duration of each worker's jobless spells has an inverse Gaussian distribution. We allow for arbitrary...
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Nonlinear Policy Rules and the Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2012
unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460096