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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416465
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Wage insurance as a policy option in the United States
Wandner, Stephen A. - 2016
Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420663
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers
Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
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Mutual obligation, unemployment and wellbeing
Saunders, Peter - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 3, pp. 167-184
less generous indexation arrangements for unemployment benefit levels than for most other payments. These changes have made … passive receipt of unemployment benefit less attractive and less feasible for those who are unemployed. At the same time, the … labour market has been growing strongly and the unemployment rate has reached its lowest level for three decades, so that the …
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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts
Bennett, Patrick - 2021
This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
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Sources of displaced workers' long-term earnings losses
Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2017
panel data from Washington State assembled from 2002-2014 administrative wage and unemployment insurance (UI) records. Three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790552
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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014
Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...
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Reemployment and earnings recovery among older unemployment insurance claimants
O'Leary, Christopher J. (contributor);  … - 2007
of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits between jobs. This paper compares the adjustment to involuntary unemployment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474652
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Wage Insurance as a Policy Option in the United States
Wandner, Stephen A. - 2016
Wage insurance is a program that attempts to help permanently displaced workers transition to employment rapidly, effectively, and equitably. Because displaced workers have been found to suffer substantial earnings losses when they become reemployed, a wage insurance program provides a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001005