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The unintended consequences of meritocratic government hiring

Geromichalos, Athanasios; Kospentaris, Ioannis - 2020 - This version: January 2020

' incentives to create jobs, increases unemployment, and lowers GDP. To quantify the effects of this novel channel, we extend the … counterfactual exercises. We find that the adverse effects of our mechanism on the economy's TFP, GDP, and unemployment are sizable. …

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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri

Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …

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Informality, public employment and employment protection in developing countries

Yassin, Shaimaa; Langot, François - 2017

This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. Theoretical analysis shows that gains from reforms aiming at liberalizing formal labor markets can...

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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job … search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment. …

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Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2020

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut

Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; 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, technology choice, and unemployment

Angyridis, Constantine; Zhou, Haiwen - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 3, pp. 296-310

's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …

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