We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

covariates are key confounders to be included inselection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

covariates are key confounders to be included in selection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

Verhältnis zum für Weiterbildung zur Verfügung stehenden Zeitpotenzial, wird dieses bei Arbeitslosigkeit zu einem erheblich …-time employment 59 % would take part. Concerning the average expenditure of time per week the difference turns around, i.e. the … expenditure of time is higher during unemployment. However, a high proportion of the training activities of the unemployed falls …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

children. We exploit the fact that since the mid 2000s an increasing number of employers have become proactive and implemented … difference-in-differences approach combined with matching. Based on a large panel dataset on families with children in Germany …