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Can a search model predict the effects of an increase in the benefit duration? : evidence from the Portuguese unemployment insurance reform
Novo, Alvaro A.; Silva, André C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …
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Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...
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Excess worker turnover and fixed-term contracts: Causal evidence in a two-tier system
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2011
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282131
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Excess Turnover and Employment Growth:Firm and Match Heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire andseparate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Largeand older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires andseparations move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360616
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Excess Turnover and Employment Growth: Firm and Match Heterogeneity
Centeno, Mario; Machado, Carla; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558936
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Excess turnover and employment growth : firm and match heterogeneity
Centeno, Mário; Machado, Carla; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2009
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in a large heterogeneity of flows and excess turnover. Large and older firms have lower flows, but high excess turnover rates. In small firms, hires and separations move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921728
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Excess worker turnover and fixed-term contracts : causal evidence in a two-tier system
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2011
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the employment protection gap between open-ended and fixed-term contracts. We explore a reform that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524388
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When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, for instance Germany and the United States, we show that institutions played a minor role in shaping changes in inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558937
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Do low-wage workers react less to longer unemployment benefits? : quasi-experimental evidence
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Alvaro A. - 2012
extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009664847
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Do low-wage workers react less to longer unemployment benefits? : quasi-experimental evidence
Centeno, Mário; Novo, Alvaro A. - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 76 (2014) 2, pp. 185-207
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