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Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The fact that unemployed workers have different abilities to smooth consumption entails heterogeneous responses to 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...

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...

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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program

Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...

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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 - In: AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis 89 (2005) 2, pp. 209-236

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. We...

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

Gangl, Markus - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 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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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions...

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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimueller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made unemployment insurance more generous by changing,...

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Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity

Belzil, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to be correlated with unemployment duration as well as...

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