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, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …
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This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … stability in Europe. Using EU-SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is …
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We document two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: from using county-level aggregates and from across-border policy spillovers. To examine the first bias, we use a regression discontinuity (RD) approach that accounts for measurement...
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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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We document two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: from using county-level aggregates and from across-border policy spillovers. To examine the first bias, we use a regression discontinuity (RD) approach that accounts for measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919513
and restrictions on fixed‐term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on …
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and restrictions on fixed-term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of … provision of unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840620
The effects that the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19 is having on unemployment could hardly differ more than in … the United States and Europe. This divergence also applies to the political reactions to it. Whereas the 27 member states … of the European Union (EU-27) managed to keep unemployment in check largely through heavy reliance on short-time work or …
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This paper is based on the first use of program administrative data from Brazil's unemployment insurance (UI) program …
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Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
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