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Wages and the value of nonemployment
Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin; Young, Samuel; … - 2018
. The value of this state is therefore a fundamental determinant of wages and, in turn, labor supply and job creation. We … measure the effect of changes in the value of nonemployment on wages in existing jobs and among job switchers. Our quasi … document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit levels: point estimates imply a wage response of less than USD 0.01 per USD 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993807
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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy
Brugiavini, Agar - 2009
This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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Threat effects of monitoring and unemployment insurance sanctions: Evidence from two reforms
Lombardi, Stefano - 2019
This paper studies threat effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit sanctions on job exit rates. Using a difference-in-differences design, I exploit two reforms of the Swedish UI system that made monitoring and sanctions considerably stricter at different points in time for different...
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Turning a blind eye? Compliance to minimum wages and employment
Garnero, Andrea; Lucifora, Claudio - 2020
In this paper, we explore the relationship between non-compliance with bargained minimum wages and employment. We … costs of non-compliance, the effect of deviating from the bargained minimum wages on employment levels are modest, or null …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294327
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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Unemployment insurance and wage formation
von Buxhoeveden, Mathias - 2019
equilibrium wages. This paper estimates the effect of UI on workers' wages. I build on a unique feature of the unemployment policy … variation in the price of UI across industries to measure the effect of industry level UI-coverage on wages. My estimates … suggest that a 10 percentage point reduction in the share of workers covered by supplement UI reduce wages by 5%. Since I rely …
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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
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The heterogeneous earnings impact of job loss across workers, establishments, and markets
Athey, Susan; Simon, Lisa; Nordström Skans, Oskar; … - 2024
Using generalized random forests and rich Swedish administrative data, we show that the earnings effects of job displacement due to establishment closures are highly heterogeneous. We find as much heterogeneity within as across closing establishments, and within as across worker types defined by...
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Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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Informing employees in small and medium sized firms about training: Results of a randomized field experiment
Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Dauth, Christine; Homrighausen, Pia - 2020
We mailed brochures to 10,000 randomly chosen employed German workers eligible for a subsizided occupational training program called WeGebAU,informing them about the importance of skill-upgrading occupational training in general and about WeGebAU in particular. Using survey and register data,we...
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