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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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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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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. - 2016
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/10012706985
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The Lockdown Impact on Unemployment for Heterogeneous Workers
Kandoussi, Malak - 2020
We develop a multi-sectoral matching model to predict the impact of the lockdown on the US unemployment, considering … and business closures that hit the workers with the first level of education explains the abruptness of the unemployment …-crisis unemployment level could be reached in 2024 in a scenario with a double wave. In the same scenario, a calibration on French data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829211
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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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Can a search model predict the effects of an increase in the benefit duration? : evidence from the Portuguese unemployment insurance reform
Novo, Álvaro A.; Silva, André C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
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/10011710699
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Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes : Micro Versus Macro Performances
Beugnot, Julie - 2014
unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044410