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Why cash transfer programs can both stimulate and slow down job finding
Mesén Vargas, Juliana; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 5, pp. 1-27
-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …
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Labor market policies during an epidemic
Birinci, Serdar; Karahan, Fatih; Mercan, Yusuf; See, Kurt - 2020
labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI) expansions and payroll subsidies. In isolation, payroll subsidies that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012309193
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Unemployment impact of product and labor market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-32
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tend to push up the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144890
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Job insecurity, employability and financial threat during COVID-19
Greenglass, Esther; Fiksenbaum, Lisa - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 15 (2023) 1, pp. 29-47
COVID-19 has resulted not only in widespread illness and death, it has also upended most spheres of social life including the economic/financial one in that it has had large impacts on local economies, resulting in widespread job loss, job insecurity and loss of income. Employability, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310211
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Can a Search Model Predict the Effects of an Increase in the Benefit Duration? Evidence from the Portuguese Unemployment Insurance Reform
Novo, Álvaro A. - 2017
successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and … unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954546
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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries
Piton, Céline - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … effect: deregulation of state controls and in particular involvement in business operations tends to push up the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915739
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Estimating the Effects of Public Training on Polish Unemployment by Way of the Augmented Matching Function Approach
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031234
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141761
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
Launov, Andrey - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142487