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The role of caseworkers in unemployment insurance : evidence from unplanned absences

Schiprowski, Amelie - 2017

Caseworkers are the main human resource used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers … unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find that individuals who lose an early meeting with their caseworker stay on … caseworkers: the effect of a foregone meeting doubles for caseworkers in the highest productivity tercile, while it is zero for …

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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905637

How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Arni, Patrick P. - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155153

How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit

Arni, Patrick P.; Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202579

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 secular rise in unemployment insurance exhaustions and what can be done about it

Smith, Ralph E. - 2011

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before they have found jobs, even in a strong labor market, has been gradually rising. For example, in 1973, 27.4 percent of UI recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a...

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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some...

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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 investigate this question by exploiting not only strict age thresholds but also the pre-displacement tenure and the reason for separation from the previous job in the Japanese...

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Is longer unemployment rewarded with longer job tenure?

Kohara, Miki; Sasaki, Masaru; Machikita, Tomohiro - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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