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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual search and labor supply decisions and triggers movements across labor force states. The employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321523
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Effects of changes in the unemployment insurance eligibility requirements on job duration - Swedish evidence
Hägglund, Pathric - 2000
This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … duration of employment spells between 1996 and 1998. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321065
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Do Austrian Men and Women Become more Equal? At Least in Terms of Labor Supply!
Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294912
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321566
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Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317960
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Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transitions to employment?
Hall, Caroline - 2008
Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273963
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The effect of unemployment benefits on re-employment rates: Evidence from the Finnish UI-benefit reform
Uusitalo, Roope; Verho, Jouko - 2007
effect of the benefit increase on the duration of unemployment by comparing the changes in the re-employment hazard profiles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317930
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How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach
Lalive, Rafael - 2006
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks …. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317925
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the workers. Firms offer wages, and possibly sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321617
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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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