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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate...
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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly … could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …
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What explains differences in finance research productivity during the pandemic?
Barber, Brad M.; Jiang, Wei; Morse, Adair; Puri, Manju; … - 2020
Based on a survey of AFA members, we analyze how demographics, time allocation, production mechanisms, and institutional factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for women and faculty with young children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501268
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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states
Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020
from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated … family types of non-retiree households. To answer my research aim I draw on harmonized data from 30 countries provided by the … Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). I estimate pre- and post-fiscal income inequality measured as between-family-type Theil indices …
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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...
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Benefit duration and job search effort : evidence from a natural experiment
Lichter, Andreas - 2016
Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an indication of reduced job search effort and moral hazard behavior. However, to date, there is hardly any direct evidence of benefit-induced reductions in search effort. This paper...
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Business cycles, unemployment insurance, and the calibration of matching models
Costain, James; Reiter, Michael - 2003
This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model as it is in the data, or to make the response of...
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How to stimulate single mothers on welfare to find a job : evidence from a natural experiment
Knoef, Marike; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The experiment was performed at the level of municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354757
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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland
Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007 - December 2007 (this revised version)
Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung von Beschäftigungskonten. Anstatt Steuern/Beiträge zu zahlen, die die Arbeitslosenunterstützung finanzieren, zahlen Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten...
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Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt
Bhuller, Manudeep; Brinch, Christian; Königs, Sebastian - 2016
Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process. This property has implications for how estimated period-to-period benefit transition...
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