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Premium Differentiation in the Unemployment Insurance System and the Demand for Labor

Alessie, Rob J.M.; Bloemen, Hans - 2000

firing cost. Following the political debate on the issue in the Netherlands, we assume that the introduction of experience …

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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …

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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

van Ours, Jan C.; Tuit, Sander - 2010

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until …

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Unemployment and portfolio choice: Does persistence matter?

Kuzin, Vladimir N.; Bremus, Franziska M. - 2010

We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment decisions of households for the European case. Our model is mainly based on the one developed by Cocco, Gomes, and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using...

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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...

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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

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by...

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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Zahn, Philipp; Wilke, Ralf A.; Müller, Eva - 2006

m Jahr 1997 wurden die maximalen Anspruchsdauern auf Arbeitslosengeld für ältere Beschäftigte verkürzt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit der 54-56jährigen untersucht....

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Unemployment insurance and the business cycle: prolong benefit entitlements in bad times?

Moyen, Stéphane; Stähler, Nikolai - 2009

The aim of this paper is to study the optimal duration of unemployment benefit entitlement duration across the business cycle. We wonder if the entitlement duration should be prolonged in bad and shortened in good times. Because of consumption smoothing, such a countercyclical policy can be...

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An adverse selection model of optimal unemployment insurance

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Mennel, Tim - 2002

We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their type. We derive a recursive solution of our dynamic adverse selection problem with repeated moral hazard. Conditions...

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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance

Gangl, Markus - 2002

Die Suchtheorie macht zwei komplementäre Vorhersagen über den Einfluß der Arbeitslosenversicherung auf die Dynamik von … Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer … Vergleich sind allenfalls die negativen Dauereffekte der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den USA etwas stärker, während in der …

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