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How does potential unemployment insurance benefit duration affect reemployment timing and wages?

Felder, Rahel; Frings, Hanna; Mittag, Nikolas - 2024

Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable … first line out a framework for treatment effect heterogeneity with two interdependent outcomes, such as duration and wages …

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Unemployment insurance and the duration of employment : evidence from a regression kink design

Britto, Diogo G. C. - 2016

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not … simple model to assess the economic relevance of this finding. It shows that the positive effect on employment duration …

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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers

Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time...

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Unemployment insurance in unionized labor markets : neither Ghent nor centralized

Saha, David; Schöb, Ronnie - 2015

This paper analyzes unemployment insurance (UI) schemes in the presence of mobile workers and trade unions at industry or regional level that are capable of internalizing the effect of wage demands on UI contribution rates. We compare two types of existing UI systems. When UI is organized at...

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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?

Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2021 - Revised version April 2021

Our study compares the efficiency of unemployment insurance programs in a state union. A centralized insurance pools the cost of unemployment which implies a collective bargaining in the countries that leads to excessively high wages and inefficient insurance. Those high wages attract workers...

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Should unemployment insurance be centralized in a state union?

Fenge, Robert; Friese, Max - 2019

Our study compares the efficiency of centralized and decentralized unemployment insurance programs in a state union. We use a model of two countries with collective bargaining for regional gross wages. The labor force and the firms are partially mobile across the member states of the state...

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