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Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2019
To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are, therefore, highest for firms after downturns, potentially hampering labor-market recovery. Using full-population, administrative records from Florida, I estimate the effect of...
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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers
Jurajda, Štěpán - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401354
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …Ein Instrument zur Eindämmung von Moral Hazard in der Arbeitslosenversicherung ist die finanzielle Sanktion in Form …
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Working to get fired? : regression discontinuity effects of unemployment benefit eligibility on prior employment duration
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we evaluate this eligibility effect using a regression discontinuity approach …
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The causal effect of unemployment duration on wages : evidence from unemployment insurance extensions
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2014
' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662
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The effect of unemployment benefit generosity on unemployment duration : quasi-experimental evidence from Slovenia
Vodopivec, Matija; Laporšek, Suzana; Dolenc, Primož; … - 2015
The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we exploit legislative changes that selectively increased the...
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Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration : the role of policy endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper …
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Should UI benefits really fall over time?
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente - 2002
The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden saving. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over the...
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The lock-in effects of part-time unemployment benefits
Benghalem, Hélène; Cahuc, Pierre; Villedieu, Pierre - 2021
We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job seekers regarding this program and sent emails...
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