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This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...
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Governments around the developing world face pressure to intervene actively to help jobseekers find employment. Two of the most common policies used are job training, based on the idea that many of those seeking jobs lack the skills employers want, and job search assistance, based on the...
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unemployment and high labour market participation the Netherlands faces further challenges with regard to flexicurity and security … empirical results of a study on arrangements or systems to prevent unemployment for employees who are threatened by redundancy …
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market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …
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affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment …
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affects job search behavior. We look at the effect of wealth at the entry into unemployment on the exit rate from unemployment …
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High unemployment and its social and economic consequences have lent urgency to the question of how to improve … unemployment insurance in bad times without jeopardizing incentives to work or public finances in the medium term. A possible … solution is a rule-based system that improves the generosity of unemployment insurance (replacement rate, benefit duration …
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greater unemployment protection in two lagging regions of southern Spain (namely, Extremadura and Andalucía). Using a border … growth, the probability of staying and in-migration in rural areas that are experiencing high unemployment and significant … the effects of greater unemployment protection on labor market outcomes. Here, the results indicate that the policy led to …
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welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment insurance but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our approach is intuitive …
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We propose a multi-country model with occupational choice, heterogeneous firms, unemployment, and revenue … tariffs in the range of 14 percent for the U.S. to 43 percent for China, and tend to increase unemployment and income …
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