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worker welfare, the welfare costs. I find that participants would be willing to give up 1.5–1.7 weeks of UI on average to …
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focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788791
focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780037
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076819
The paper studies the efficiency of Swedish labour market policies for young workers. Using age discontinuities which define which policy regime an individual is covered by we present quasi-experimental evidence on the relative efficiency of different policy regimes currently in use. Results...
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Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We exploit in a difference-in-differences approach a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the...
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Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288066
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357422
This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …
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