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Potential unemployment insurance duration and labor supply : the individual and market-level response to a benefit cut

Johnston, Andrew; Mas, Alexandre - 2020

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD …

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Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

Landais, Camille - 2013

-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential duration in the regression kink (RK) design using kinks in the schedule …-to-employment profile brought about by exogenous variations in the benefit level as well as in the benefit duration. I then use these … estimates to calibrate the welfare effects of an increase in UI benefit level and in UI potential duration …

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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt : considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions

Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019

This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....

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Essays on unemployment insurance design

Ek, Susanne - 2013

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Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable

Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 839-870

The key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that the distribution of potential outcomes varies smoothly with the running variable around the cutoff. In many empirical contexts, however, this assumption is not credible; and the running variable is said to be manipulated in this...

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