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Unemployment insurance savings accounts in Latin America : overview and assessment
Ferrer, Ana M.; Riddell, William Craig - 2011
The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee’s mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...
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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut
Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020
We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of...
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Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects : the entitled-worker effect
Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2020
kind of moral hazard appears. This creates new incentives for workers and produces an additional counter-cyclical pressure …
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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Zur Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung : Probleme und Lösungsansätze in der deutschen Literatur
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2000
Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist der Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland seit den siebziger Jahren. Es wird … untersucht, ob die Arbeitslosenversicherung dazu beigetragen hat, die Arbeitslosigkeit zu senken. Die deskriptive Analyse und … the few endeavours to increase incentives to work have been intramarginal. Concomitant to the failing GUIS a body of …
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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies
Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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Stuck in a trap? : long-term unemployment under two-tier unemployment compensation schemes
Nagl, Wolfgang; Weber, Michael - 2016
. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re …
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment in the great recession : the role of macro effects
Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; Manovskii, Iourii; … - 2013
We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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UI generosity and job acceptance: effects of the 2020 CARES Act
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Valletta, Robert G. - 2021
To provide economic relief following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. CARES Act granted an extra $600 per week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI generosity caused weekly benefit payments to exceed...
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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 …
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