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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
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Unemployment duration and the take-up of unemployment insurance
Blasco, Sylvie; Fontaine, François - 2021
A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants … the sample faces high claiming frictions, many have good employment prospects and exit unemployment quickly. The burden of … little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts …
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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle
Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
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The effect of extended unemployment insurance benefits : evidence from the 2012 - 2013 phase-out
Farber, Henry S.; Rothstein, Jesse; Valletta, Robert G. - 2015
Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most …-2014, we estimate the effect of extended benefits on unemployment exits separately during the earlier period of benefit …
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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 …
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Blame the parents? : how financial incentives affect labor supply and job quality for young adults
Fradkin, Andrey; Panier, Frédéric; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …
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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
This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor … lengthen nonemployment spells and decrease time spent in part-time unemployment, and thus result in more full-time unemployment …. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the …
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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 … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …
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The effects of reducing the entitlement period to unemployment insurance benefits
Groot, Nynke de; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014
did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …
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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 … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …
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