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Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk

Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...

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Lifetime Labor Supply in a Search Model of Unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon J.H.; Broer, D. Peter - 2003

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of older workers to a much larger extent than that ofyoung...

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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - 2007

Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …

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Identifying Risk-based Selection in Social Insurance: New Approaches and Findings

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2022

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects …

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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003

insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …

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Disinformation for Hire: Examining the Production of False COVID-19 Information

Cohn, Alain; Stoop, Jan; Rahman, Hatim A. - 2022

Misinformation is linked to increased social divisions and adverse health outcomes. While most research focuses on the spread of misinformation, we examine the production of misinformation intended to mislead (disinformation). Our field experiment (N=1,200) found, adjusting for circumstantial...

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Empirical Evaluation of Broader Job Search Requirements for Unemployed Workers

van der Klaauw, Bas; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Search and the City

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - 2002

We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006

Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...

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