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Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?

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Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 200,000 firms and 54 million workers per year. We find robust evidence of rent sharing...

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Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?

Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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The Effects of Unemployment Benefits in Italy : Evidence from an Institutional Change

Rosolia, Alfonso - 2012

We document the effects of a change in the Italian Ordinary Unemployment Benefits Scheme on the job search process. As of January 2001, the replacement rate was raised from 30% to 40% and benefits' duration extended from 6 to 9 months for workers aged 50 or more. Our results show that (a) the...

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A Contributory System of Unemployment Insurance : The Italian Experience

Sovera, Alessandro - 2022

There is extensive literature on the effects of a change in the Potential Benefit Duration of unemployment benefits. However, little is known about how this affects workers with unstable and fragmented careers. Using a large administrative dataset from Italy and a regression discontinuity...

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Health and Labour Market Effects of An Abrupt and Unanticipated Rise in Women Retirement Age. Evidence from the 2012 Italian Pension Reform

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Population ageing is prompting governments around the world to increase the retirement age. However, not all workers … examine the health and labour market effects of an Italian pension reform that suddenly increased the normal retirement age … survey data and difference-in-difference methods. Our results show that the reform was effective in postponing retirement, as …

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