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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition

Berger, Mark C.; Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000

shock of economic liberalization in Russia may raise the benefits of training, particularly retraining for new jobs, but … much stronger for additional training in the same field than for retraining for new fields, consistent with the hypothesis …, suggesting inertial programs from the pre-transition era. Retraining in new fields increases all types of worker mobility and has …

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Is the Threat of Training More Effective Than Training Itself? Experimental Evidence from the UI System

Black, Dan A.; Smith, Jeffrey A.; Berger, Mark C.; … - 1999

This paper examines the effect of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. This program "profiles" UI claimants to determine their probability of benefit exhaustion (or expected spell duration) and then provides mandatory employment and training services to claimants with...

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Evaluating Profiling as a Means of Allocating Government Services

Berger, Mark; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffrey - 2000

This paper considers the use of statistical profiling to allocate persons to alternative options within government programs, or to participation or non-participation in programs. Profiling has been used in the United States to allocate unemployment insurance (UI) claimants to reemployment...

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Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Pallage, Stephane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...

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Timed to say goodbye : does unemployment benefit eligibility affect worker layoffs?

Albanese, Andrea; Ghirelli, Corinna; Picchio, Matteo - 2019

Este trabajo estudia el papel que desempeñan las condiciones de acceso a la prestación por desempleo sobre la tasa de despidos. Para ello, se explota la variación cuasi experimental en los criterios de elegibilidad para el subsidio de desempleo en Italia, a través de una estimación de...

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Stabilisation properties of a sure-like European unemployment insurance

Alonso, Daniel

Para moderar las caídas en la producción y en los ingresos que afectan a determinados Estados o regiones, los países y las uniones monetarias disponen de mecanismos de reparto de riesgos. Estos mecanismos funcionan estabilizando las rentas de los hogares de forma que las fluctuaciones de la...

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The French Biodiesel Production: An Assessment of the Impacts and Interaction Effects of Policy Instruments

Doumax, Virginie - 2010

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/18/10.

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Carbon Emissions, Renewable Electricity and Profits: Comparing Alternative Policies to Promote Anaerobic Digesters on Dairies

Key, Nigel; Sneeringer, Stacy E. - 2011

Biogas recovery systems that use methane from manure to generate electricity have not been widely adopted in U.S. mainly because the costs of constructing and maintaining these systems have exceeded the value of the benefits provided. Climate change mitigation and renewable energy policies could...

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Making Economic Sense Out of Unisex Life Insurance (Or the Difference Between Cost and Value and Why It Matters to Real People)

Booth, Richard A., Marbury Research Professor of Law - 2002

, to charge men and women the same price for life insurance would constitute a subsidy running from women (who would pay … to buy something, the idea that there is a subsidy implicit in unisex insurance rates is mistaken. For the consumer, the …

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The Moral High Ground: Differentials Among Executive Directors of Canadian Nonprofits

Handy, Femida; Mook, Laurie; Ginieniewicz, Jorge; … - 2007

There is a considerable literature, albeit inconclusive, on whether workers in the nonprofit sector are paid less than their counterparts in the private and public sectors. For example, a large national study in the U.S. showed positive and negative differentials for some occupations and...

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