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The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Benefits : New Evidence and Interpretation
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2016
, there have been important advances in both theory and measurement of UI. In this paper, we first use the theory to present a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456115
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Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs : Evidence from the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program
Gerard, François - 2016
comprehensive administrative data to quantify the efficiency cost of increases in potential UI duration in Brazil. We find evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456071
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Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply : The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456266
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Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula
Goda, Gopi Shah - 2015
We examine the connection between taxes paid and benefits accrued under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program on both the intensive and extensive margins. We perform these calculations for stylized workers given the existing benefit structure and disability hazard rates. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456962
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Bounds on Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
Gerard, François - 2016
The key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that the distribution of potential outcomes varies smoothly with the running variable around the cutoff. In many empirical contexts, however, this assumption is not credible; and the running variable is said to be manipulated in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455788
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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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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics
Lise, Jeremy - 2013
We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment which extends the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459942
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The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from a Large Online Job Board
Marinescu, Ioana - 2016
During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … CareerBuilder.com, I find that a 10% increase in benefit duration decreased state-level job applications by 1%, but had no robust … benefit duration by 10% increases unemployment by only 0.6% in equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456230
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Interpreting Recent Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Hagedorn, Marcus - 2016
Marinescu (2015) employs a methodology that does not attempt to address these challenges. A more innovative approach in Coglianese (2015) and Chodorow-Reich and Karabarbounis (2016) attempts to overcome these challenges by exploiting a sampling error in unemployment rates as an exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456395
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The Limited Macroeconomic Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel - 2016
revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of benefits into the part coming from actual differences in economic … outcomes. We use our estimates to quantify the effects of the increase in the duration of benefits during the Great Recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456512