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Unemployment insurance and underemployment
Godøy, Anna; Røed, Knut - 2014
Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to retain partial UI benefits during periods of...
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Should UI benefits really fall over time?
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente - 2002
The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden saving. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over the...
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The spike at benefit exhaustion in the Finnish labor market
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna; Verho, Jouko - 2017
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card,...
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The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes : evidence from a kinked benefit rule
Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna - 2017
. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the …
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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut
Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020
We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD …
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The effects of unemployment insurance on labor supply and search outcomes : regression discontinuity estimates from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2010
This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic … UI during recessions do not lead to lasting increases in unemployment duration, nor can they explain differ-ences in … unemployment durations across countries. We do not find any effect of increased UI duration on average job quality, but show that …
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Unemployment insurance and subsequent job duration : job matching vs unobserved heterogeneity
Belzil, Christian - 2000
The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the …
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The effects of reducing the entitlement period to unemployment insurance benefits
Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014
This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data covering the full population we find that reducing the entitlement period increases the job finding...
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Sanctions for young welfare recipients
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
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The effect of extended unemployment benefit on the job finding hazards : a quasi-experiment in Japan
Machikita, Tomohiro; Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru - 2013
This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … separation from the previous job in the Japanese UI system which determines a worker's maximum potential UI benefit duration at … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …
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