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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262558
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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001
This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403396
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000204
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001341
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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality: a regression-discontinuity approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009
unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended … jobs close to and after the time when benefits are exhausted are significantly more likely to exit subsequent employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269443
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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
marginal employment up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a … incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282487
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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to increase their job-finding probabilities. To analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers...
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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2003
maintain their rent control benefits unemployed individuals are presumably less demanding when accepting a job in the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261571
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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes … among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged … benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303934
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321566