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Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …Ein Instrument zur Eindämmung von Moral Hazard in der Arbeitslosenversicherung ist die finanzielle Sanktion in Form …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
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This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. First, despite the uniform maximum benefit … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with …
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' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …
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Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not … simple model to assess the economic relevance of this finding. It shows that the positive effect on employment duration …
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Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the … simple model showing that the positive effect on employment duration implies that the optimal benefit is higher than …
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effects of UI benefit duration in the form of across-border work patterns that are consistent with increased tightness in high …
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In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...
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