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Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?
Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 45-50
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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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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Vergleich sind allenfalls die negativen Dauereffekte der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den USA etwas stärker, während in der …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 …
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment in the great recession: The role of macro effects
Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; Manovskii, Iourii; … - 2013
We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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Job search and unemployment insurance: new evidence from time use data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
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Unemployment insurance generosity: a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008
The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269178
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Štepán - 2001
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
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Job search and job finding in a period of mass unemployment: Evidence from high-frequency longitudinal data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2011
This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274673
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Self-employment and labor market risks
Audoly, Richard - 2024
I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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