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housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …
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Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …
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housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060199
This paper considers employment growth and unemployment from 1990-2010 in a cross-section of cities in light of … unemployment rates in 83 central cities in the United States. Change in educational attainment over time is suggestive of causing … higher job growth and lower unemployment. The implication is that initiatives to attract and retain college …
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policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507679
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …
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Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...
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policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505164
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures enforced to combat it have led to a decline in economic activity unprecedented since the Great Depression. Worldwide, millions, and yet millions, of people have lost their jobs-either temporarily or permanently. At first, the COVID- 19...
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This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...
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