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The impact of monitoring and sanctioning on unemployment exit and job-finding rates : job search monitoring and benefit sanctions generally reduce unemployment duration and boost e...
McVicar, Duncan - 2014
Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417039
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Use of unemployment insurance and public employment services after leaving welfare
O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338814
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Can "happiness data" help evaluate economic policies? : "happiness data" may help assess the walfare effects of a new labor market policy, like a change in benefit generosity
Macculoch, Robert - 2016
unemployment benefits. Will social welfare rise as a result? Will some groups be winners and other groups be losers? Will the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434019
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977249
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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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Work Incentive and Other Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Benefit Policy in the Czech Republic
Erbenova, Michaela; Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - 1999
In this paper we provide an account of most of the passive labor market policies (unemployment compensation, social … unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits with those receiving social assistance and those not receiving any benefits and … effects of the unemployment and social assistance benefits by comparing these benefits to market wages and by analyzing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047311
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Unemployment benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness in the United States : Impacts of the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
Pearsall, Eliza-Jane - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435886
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Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt : proceedings and research potential
Schmidtke, Julia - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
Most studies on benefit sanctions within the German welfare system rely on established datasets about welfare receipt. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing welfare claims can contribute to further research on...
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Early retirement provision for elderly displaced workers
Kruse, Herman; Myhre, Andreas - 2022
benefits, where 51 percentage points comes from disability insurance and 13 percentage points from unemployment insurance. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341538
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
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