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Unemployment Durations and Extended Unemployment Benefits in Local Labor Markets
Jurajda, Štěpán; Tannery, Frederick J. - 2010
Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …
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Tuning unemployment insurance to the business cycle : unemploymenr insurance generosity should be greater when unemployment is high and vice versa
Andersen, Torben M. - 2014
unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve …
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Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2003
occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among the young; why unemployment is lower …
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Capitalism and Utopia in the Social Theory of André Gorz
Camargo, Sílvio - 2021
In this essay, I seek to provide an overview of André Gorz's conception of modern capitalism, considering different moments of his intellectual production. From his initial criticism of the concept of the proletariat between the 1970s and 1980s until his last theoretical work that addresses the...
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Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among the young; why unemployment is lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319770
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Human Capital and Its Structure
Burns, Scott - 2017
The Austrian school is unique for its emphasis of the capital structure of an economy. In this paper, I explore what this “capital-based” approach to macroeconomics with its focus on capital as a structure and the heterogeneity of not only physical but also human capital might teach us about...
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Bidding for Industrial Plants : Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?
Greenstone, Michael; Moretti, Enrico - 2004
Increasingly, local governments compete by offering substantial subsidies to industrial plants to locate within their jurisdictions. This paper uses a novel research design to estimate the local consequences of successfully bidding for an industrial plant, relative to bidding and losing, on...
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Job Search, Unemployment Insurance, and Active Labor Market Policies
Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Schmieder, Johannes; Weber, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …
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A comment on "Taste-based gender favouritism in high-strike decisions: evidence from the price is right"
Engel, Julia F.; Nüß, Patrick; Rudolph, Meike; … - 2024
We conduct a computational replication of Atanasov et al. (2023). In total, our analysis covers three variations: we use the cleaned dataset provided in the replication package, we clean the original data ourselves, and finally we extend the dataset to encompass an additional three years of data...
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Higher Labor Market Bargaining Power, Higher Unemployment in Recessions
Atal, Vidya; Gharehgozli, Orkideh; San Vicente Portes, Luis - 2021
It is well-known that there exist gender differentials in the labor market in the US and during different stages of business cycles in the US, men, and women in the labor market react differently. In this paper, we theoretically frame the labor market dynamics under a Diamond-Mortensen...
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