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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?
Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2019
Our study compares the efficiency of centralized and decentralized unemployment insurance programs in a state union. We use a model of two countries with collective bargaining for regional gross wages. The labor force and the firms are partially mobile across the member states of the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029709
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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?
Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2020 - Revised version Januar 2020
Our study compares the efficiency of centralized and decentralized unemployment insurance programs in a state union. We use a model of two countries with collective bargaining for regional gross wages. The labor force and the firms are partially mobile across the member states of the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156083
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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?
Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2021 - Revised version April 2021
Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance pools the cost of unemployment which implies a collective bargaining in the countries that leads to excessively high wages and inefficient insurance. Those high wages attract workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012502075
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Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2019
To finance unemployment insurance, states raise payroll tax rates on employers who engage in layoffs. Tax rates are, therefore, highest for firms after downturns, potentially hampering labor-market recovery. Using full-population, administrative records from Florida, I estimate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900741
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Drowned by numbers? : designing an EU-wide unimployment insurance
Farvaque, Étienne; Huart, Florence - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492044
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Working to get fired? : regression discontinuity effects of unemployment benefit eligibility on prior employment duration
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
distort the duration of jobs. In this paper, we evaluate this eligibility effect using a regression discontinuity approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543815
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Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration : the role of policy endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411285
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Should UI benefits really fall over time?
Hassler, John; Rodríguez Mora, José Vicente - 2002
The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a tractable model allowing moral hazard, adverse selection and hidden saving. Analytical results show that when the search productivity of unemployed is constant over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414504
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
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/10011414725
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
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 …Ein Instrument zur Eindämmung von Moral Hazard in der Arbeitslosenversicherung ist die finanzielle Sanktion in Form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418245