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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries: Evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … those becoming self-employed. Furthermore, the UI duration elasticity for these individuals is higher than common estimates …
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Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297359
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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?
Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
. Estimation of standard duration models indicates that conclusions drawn from the IABS and the GSOEP differ in many cases. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297415
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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297436
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Zahn, Philipp; Wilke, Ralf A.; Müller, Eva - 2006
unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298017
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010
We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with employment risk and labor market search in order evaluate the effects of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301694
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Fixing the leak: unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299834
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New Estimates of the Duration and Risk of Unemployment for West-Germany
Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004
This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297349
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Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?
Biewen, Martin; Steffes, Susanne - 2008
We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298068