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This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...
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This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....
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Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme … Übergänge aus Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung einher. Wie diese Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, verbessert der Einsatz von AAMP den …
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(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …
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(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …
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We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …
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We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …
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week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
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