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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer …Die Suchtheorie macht zwei komplementäre Vorhersagen über den Einfluß der Arbeitslosenversicherung auf die Dynamik von … anderen empirischen Studien, die nur den negativen Effekt der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit betrachten, werden im vorliegenden DP …
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The long-term impact of job displacement in Germany during the 1982 recession on earnings, income, and employment
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2010
Jahr 1982 vorherrschenden Rezession in Deutschland ihren Arbeitsplatz verlieren, anhaltende Gehaltsverluste in Höhe von 10 … großzügige deutsche System der Arbeitslosenversicherung lediglich einen kleinen Anteil des gesamten Einkommensverlustes ersetzen …
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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The causal effect of unemployment duration on wages : evidence from unemployment insurance extensions
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean...
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2014
This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean...
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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How Changes in BenefitsEntitlement Affect Job-Finding : Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"
Vodopivec, Milan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2004
In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find that the reduction in potential benefit duration had a...
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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits does not affect the quality of post-unemployment jobs: evidence from a natural experiment
van Ours, Jan C.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2006
This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration....
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Shortening the potential duration of unemployment benefits does not affect the quality of post-unemployment jobs : evidence from a natural experiment
Ours, Jan C. van (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that substantially reduced the potential benefit duration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335453
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The Effect of Enhancing Unemployment Benefits in Korea : Wage Replacement Rate vs. Maximum Benefit Duration
Kim, Jiwoon - 2018
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of an enhancement in unemployment benefits in Korea. In particular, I quantify the welfare effect of two specific policy chances which have been mainly discussed among policymakers in recent years: increasing wage replacement rates by 10%p and...
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