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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?

Wolf, Tobias - 2020

This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...

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Spatial Mobility and Competition for Jobs: Some Theory and Evidence for Western Germany

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2006

This paper sheds new light on the role of regional labor market conditions for regional mobility. We study competition for vacant jobs along two dimensions - between employed and unemployed job searchers, and between resident and non-resident job searchers - within a simple matching framework....

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Explaining Differences in Job Search OutcomesBetween Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probabilitythat employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. Thejob finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed jobseekers, and this...

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Part-Time Unemployment andOptimal Unemployment Insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-timeunemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as astepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflowfrom unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to full-timeemployment. We …

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Social Security and Intergenerational Redistribution

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

Many countries around the world have large public pension programs with signif-icant cross-cohort redistribution. This paper provides a rationale for such programsin a lifecycle framework with search and matching frictions in the labor market. Inthe model, public pension programs alter the age...

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A Positive Theory of the Income RedistributiveFocus of Social Security

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

Many countries around the world have large public pension programs. Traditionally, these programshave been used to induce retirement by the elderly in order to free up jobs for the young andto redistribute income across generations. This paper provides an efficiency rationale for the...

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Aging, Unemployment, and Welfare in a Life-Cycle Model with Costly Labor Market Search

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

the lifecycle affects aggregate labor market activity, and in particular, unemployment. While much work has been done on … environment in which unemployment arises as a natural possibility and both young and old workers find themselves contemporaneously …

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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Workingin Spain? A Job Search Approach

Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …

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How Do Different Entitlements to UnemploymentBenefits Affect the Transitions from Unemploymentinto Employment?

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of...

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