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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on a two-state mixed proportional hazard model...
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How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline hazard function and allowing for discrete changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319547
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The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements : Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520356
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Engineering an incentive to search for work : a comparison groups approach
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin; Kobus, Martyna - 2015
Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because it is optimal for an individual to remain unemployed when other unemployed individuals constitute his main reference group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281240
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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung : das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001
keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es …
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Optionen einer effizienten Gestaltung der Arbeitslosenversicherung
Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001
Die internationale Diskussion der letzten Jahrzehnte hat zur Frage nach einer effizienten Gestaltung der Einkommenssicherung von Arbeitslosen eine Reihe von Vorschlägen hervorgebracht, wie die von Beenstock/Brasse, Feldstein /Altman, Grubel und Orzag/Snower. Sie werden dargestellt und bewertet....
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Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages : Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...
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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015
In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333578
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Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss : Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs
Cederlöf, Jonas - 2021
This paper studies the consequences of job loss for workers, and explores differences in the cost of displacement using a novel research design. While the previous literature relies on mass layoffs and plant closures for identification, I exploit discontinuities in the likelihood of displacement...
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