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Evaluating public employment programs with field experiments : a survey of American evidence
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
that paying unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to involuntarily jobless workers prolongs unemployment. However, some … scholars also reported estimates that the additional time spent in subsidized job search was productive. That is, UI receipt … investigated positive incentives to overcome the work disincentive effects of UI. These were followed by experiments in the 1990s …
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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt : considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019
This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....
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Impact of welfare sanctions on the quality of subsequent employment : wages, incomes, and employment stability
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019
This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and covering job stability with the durations of three employment states: employed, unemployed, and supplementary benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977328
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Do job search rules and reemployment services reduce insured unemployment?
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Wandner, Stephen A. - 2005
This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies. It then reviews research results on the effects of reemployment services on durations of insured unemployment. The paper documents...
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The role of short-time work schemes during the global financial crisis and early recovery : a cross-country analysis
Hijzen, Alexander; Martin, Sébastien - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-31
There has been a strong interest in short-time work (STW) schemes during the global financial crisis. Using data for 23 OECD countries for the period 2004 Q1 to 2010 Q4, this paper analyses the quantitative effects of STW programmes on labour market outcomes. Special attention is given to the...
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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2020
insurance (UI) generosity for self-employment. By using Spanish administrative data including so far inaccessible information on … self-employment, we exploit a reform-driven exogenous cut in UI benefits to identify its causal effect on general … employment and decompose it into the effects on self-employment and re-employment. Exploiting a discontinuity in the UI benefit …
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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2021
insurance (UI) generosity for selfemployment. By using Spanish administrative data including previously unavailable information … on self-employment, we exploit a reform-driven exogenous cut in UI benefits to identify its causal effect on general … employment and decompose it into the effects on self-employment and re-employment. Exploiting a discontinuity in the UI benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520079
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The employment service-unemployment insurance partnership : origin, evolution, and revitalization
Balducchi, David E.; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2017
This study traces the origin and evolution of the partnership between the employment service and unemployment insurance programs in the United States. We examine objectives of the framers of the Wagner-Peyser and Social Security Acts that established these programs. Using primary sources, we...
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The effects of UI caseworkers on job search effort
Schiprowski, Amelie; Schmidtke, Julia; Schmieder, Johannes - 2024
We combine a high-frequency survey on job search effort with administrative data on caseworker interactions from the German unemployment insurance system to estimate how the dynamics of search effort respond to caseworker meetings and vacancy referrals. Meetings alone do not increase...
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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