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Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …
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Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …
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Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …
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The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …
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In this paper, we calculate the disposable incomes in 2012 of three selected family types receiving social assistance in five countries in north-western Europe. We also calculate the net replacement rates for families receiving social assistance, calculated on the basis of the disposable incomes...
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large panel dataset of European countries, we find that individuals who experienced high unemployment under a regime of low … unemployment benefits are more in favor of redistribution later in life and state an orientation more oriented towards the left …. However, negative economic shocks in an environment with a very generous unemployment insurance are related to less support of …
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Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418261
Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418275
The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262392
We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …
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