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-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …
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a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …
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by comparing the post-program duration of employment for the two programs. In addition, we focus in some detail on the … selection process may bias the effect estimate in the non-linear duration model that we use. Simulations help us to determine …
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Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...
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-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we … positive employment effect of doubling the subsidy duration persists after the expiry of the employment subsidies. …
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
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that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not … possibility of decomposing the treatment effect of UI on asset accumulation into two parts; one part where more generous UI leads … to raised expected earnings and a second part where a more generous UI reduces the expected variation in earnings. The …
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abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …
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The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an analytically tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden savings. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over...
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sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662