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The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …
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unemployment; interpretation of unemployment problems from due to endogenous and exogenous causes; analysis of the high incidence …This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …
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We explore a new approach to understanding the evolution of the unemployment rate in Australia. Specifically, we use … gross worker flows data to study the consequences of assuming that there is no unique equilibrium rate of unemployment but … rather a continuum of stochastic equilibrium rates which reflect the movement of the unemployment entry and exit rates over …
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Cyclical asymmetry has been recognized as a non-linear phenomenon in recent studies examining unemployment rate time … forecasting unemployment rates in mind, it seems intuitive that models should reflect this change in structure by incorporating …. Accordingly, this paper evaluates the point forecasts from models of the monthly, aggregate Australian unemployment rate series …
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The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically … investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected …
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being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping …
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- unemployment, employment and inactivity (or OLF) - in the Danish labour market. I find that women and individuals over fifty are … more likely to experience the long-term unemployment and inactivity. The less educated and unskilled workers are found to …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of approximate welfare efficiency (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
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unemployment, its average duration exceeding 14 years. We present a micro-econometric exploration of the underlying process. The … for the years to come. We estimate long-term non-employment and its duration by means of Italian longitudinal databases of …
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