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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418245
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414725
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635521
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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
van Ours, Jan; Lalive, R.; Zweimüller, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment.In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits.We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092819
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Time Aggregation Bias in Discrete Time Models of Aggregate Duration Data
Franta, Michal - Česká Národní Banka - 2008
The paper focuses on the dynamics of unemployment in the Czech Republic over the period 1992-–2007. Unemployment dynamics are elaborated in terms of unemployment inflows and unemployment duration. The paper contributes to the literature dealing with discrete time models of aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963479
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas I. - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333288
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Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Foerster, Hanno; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2023
behavior by the agencies. Notably, rejections of VRs may lead to sanctions (temporary benefits reductions) while workers may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469705
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - 2013
) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit variation in the timing and size of UI benefit … with the prior extension of benefits during the much milder downturn in the early 2000s. Using monthly matched individual … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319546
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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages
Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246658