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Unemployment benefits and unemployment in the great recession : the role of macro effects
Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; Manovskii, Iourii; … - 2013
that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202667
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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318597
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment in the great recession: The role of macro effects
Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; Manovskii, Iourii; … - 2013
that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333564
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Relative effects of labor taxes and unemployment benefits on hours worked per worker and employment
Chen, Been-lon; Hsu, Mei; Lai, Chih-fang - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383169
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262333
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access to UI. Although the expansion's aim is to smooth the income and consumption of previously ineligible workers, it is possible that UI benefits simply displace other sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341908
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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness
Martin, John P. - 2014
Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour market policies. Yet they are defined and implemented differently across OECD countries and their success rates vary too. The Great Recession has posed a severe stress test for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361894
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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness
Martin, John P. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374638
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Targeting tax relief at youth employment
Webb, Matthew; Warman, Casey; Sweetman, Arthur - 2016
Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers with net increases in insurable earnings for youth aged 18-24. Using a difference-in-differences approach, in each of two datasets statistically and economically significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528842
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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?
Cockx, Bart; Ries, Jean - 2004
In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449809