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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in …
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How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline hazard function and allowing for discrete changes...
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Labour market heterogeneity : wage determination and unemployment duration
Collier, William James Cledan - 2000
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520356
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281240
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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms
Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575128
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Active Labour Market Policy vs Employment Tax Credits : Lessons from Recent UK Reforms
Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2008
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective - active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113612
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The Labor Market Effects of Place-Based Policies : Evidence from England's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund
Jump, Robert Calvert; Scavette, Adam - 2022
Neighborhood renewal programs are a type of place-based policy that aim to revive underperforming localities. The literature on place-based policies has found mixed results regarding their effects on local labor market outcomes, but there are relatively few studies of policies that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083632
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The decline of overtime working in Britain
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2019
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
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