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Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
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incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …
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firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …
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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …
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We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …
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-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...
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