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This paper studies contingent, temporary unemployment insurance (UI) coverag´s impactson employment and unemployment durations using a duration model extended with heapingconsiderations and a recent Canadian panel data...
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The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labourmarket. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension systemare two frequently mentioned examples of that policy...
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Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, weshow that activity-oriented UI regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of requiredparticipation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UIentitlements, and high sanction...
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There is robust field data showing that a frequent and successful way of looking fora job is via the intermediation of friends and relatives. Here we want to explore thisexperimentally. Participants first play a simple public good game with two interactionpartners friends, and share whatever...
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.Am bedeutendsten in diesem Zusammenhangist die Arbeitslosenversicherung. Sie fungiertals zentraler Stabilisator insbesondere …
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung sichert nur das Risikodes vollständigen Einkommensverlustes beiArbeitslosigkeit für eine …
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Vom Frühjahr 2005 bis zum Herbst 2008 gab esfast ausschließlich positive Nachrichten vom hiesigenArbeitsmarkt. Die Arbeitslosenzahl sank stetigund zum Ende dieser Periode erstmals seit langemwieder unter drei Millionen. Fast zeitgleichlöste der Zusammenbruch der US-amerikanischenInvestment...
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This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....
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We study the transition dynamics and welfare effects of reducing unemployment benefits in a Mortensen-Pissarides matching model with precautionary savings. The dynamic analysis reveals significant transition costs that comparative statics would miss. The main reason is that initially individuals...
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We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit ceiling, coupled with the fact that there are regional...
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