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The aim of this paper is to study the optimal duration of unemployment benefit entitlement duration across the business cycle. We wonder if the entitlement duration should be prolonged in bad and shortened in good times. Because of consumption smoothing, such a countercyclical policy can be...
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benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program … of Income and Program Participation können diese Effekte für beide Arbeitsmärkte empirisch nachgewiesen werden. Im …
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The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to be correlated with unemployment duration as well as...
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In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...
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In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...
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Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI...
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In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not …. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases … also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …
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We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after which they would receive old age pensions. This...
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This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program …. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a solidarity fund (SF) with self-insurance in …
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