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-tenure displaced workers experience earnings losses due to reduced income during unemployment following displacement. However, unlike … indicates that job losers with 5 or more years of job tenure constitute about 5% of unemployment and 15-20% of permanent job …
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …
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We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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Workers displaced from long-tenure jobs often have difficulty finding new employment and can take a substantial drop in earnings when they find reemployment. These losses are large and persistent, and can easily dwarf the transitory losses from the initial period of nonemployment. Policy...
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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Combining the longitudinal dimension and the retrospective calendar of the French Labour Force Survey (2003-2011), we analyse the labour market transitions and outcomes of workers who were dismissed for economic reasons. This study analyses the re-employment patterns of displaced workers and...
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Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …
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Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …
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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …
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The large-scale unemployment caused by the Great Recession has necessitated unprecedented increases in the duration of … unemployment insurance (UI). While it is clear that the weekly payments are beneficial to recipients, workers receiving benefits … changes in the distribution of unemployment benefit duration. We find that search activity is greater when a claimant's UI …
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